Clinicians are seeing an influx of patients experiencing an unsettling side effect after COVID-19: losing their hair.
The most common type of hair loss seen in post-COVID patients is telogen effluvium.
Anagen is the active growth phase, catagen is the transitional phase, and telogen is the resting phase -- in which hair sheds. "A lot of times people don't even notice that they shed," Abittan said. "But once they shed to a level where they notice, then they start to count every hair on their head." "The more severe cases are probably having more severe hair loss," Young said. However, she added that the causes of hair loss in patients with severe COVID could be multifactorial, linked to the medications they took or the procedures they underwent.
In this June 6, 2022, file photo, a man is tested at a COVID-19 testing van as persons wait in Times Square in New York.Abittan said that to determine the best course of treatment, clinicians should evaluate patients to ensure there are no other underlying causes of hair loss, such as a thyroid issue.
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