As COVID-19 survivors report hair loss, an expert from Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine shares what you need to know.
late July, a doctor from Lenox Hill Hospital in New York said she’s been seeing patients come in with “bags of hair” that they’ve lost after recovering from COVID-19.
The pervasive stress associated with this pandemic, he says, is likely playing a major role — and may even be causing hair loss in those without the virus. “I've been doing a lot of telehealth hair visits too and a number of my patients haven't gotten COVID, but they're shedding their hair,” Yazdan says. “I can’t really figure it out, but then when I probe more, just the fact that they're in lockdown, stuck at home or worrying about losing their jobs...
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