Julie Fischer is a nurse who cared for patients with COVID-19, made the list of symptoms, most of which are already known and named professionals. In March, the woman herself became ill and a few weeks after recovery I noticed that I began to lose hair.
“When I took a shower, then began to notice that I just shreds climb hair. At first I thought it was because of the cheap shampoo, but it soon became obvious that this was not the shampoo,” she said portal WebMD.
Fisher lost so much hair that worried about the health of the thyroid gland – coronavirus can be dangerous for that body. She went to the doctor and colleagues from im doctors and nurses who worked with patients carrying the virus. It turned out, baldness is one of the symptoms that manifested themselves from other people.
American Academy of dermatology says that hair loss can be caused by genetics, age, hormonal imbalance, other diseases and drugs and, of course, stress.
Experts say that type of hair loss that has the most patients with COVID-19, called telogen effluvium, a temporary form of hair loss caused by physical or emotional stress, fever, illness or weight loss of more than 10 kg. This effect leads to the loss of the ox all over the scalp of the head, not just at the crown of the male, and the number of lost hair significantly more 50-100 that people usually lose every day.
“In the life cycle of hair has three advantages. Up to 90% of the mass of hair growing constantly, 5% are in the resting phase, while 10% fall out. When you have experienced severe stress, shock, up to 50% of your hair can fall out. It happens all the time, but not so much because of the growth cycles. But the shock in the body accelerates the process of hair loss and it seems that everything happens dramatically and quickly,” explained Sarah Hogan, Ph. D., Professor of medical Sciences in the medical School David Geffen University of California at Los Angeles, Recalling that after 3-5 months after a severe sickness patients often notice hair loss.
Hogan recalled that in addition to the physiological effects of coronavirus, people lose jobs, face greater uncertainty in terms of income and wealth – all this provokes stress and can also cause baldness.
Experts recognize it is difficult to understand why some people recover from losing their hair and others don’t. Likely, hair loss happens to those who are predisposed to it, or in whose hair cycle laid such a reaction. But how to detect and prevent as yet unknown.
Dr. Hogan said that, in most cases, this is not a permanent phenomenon. Within 4-6 months, the hair growth comes back to normal. It also encourages more active to reducethe level of stress and work to harmonize the state of mind.
“I remind patients that the hair is not essential for your long-term survival. What really counts is what you’ve been through a very hard situation you and your body overcome it. You need to give yourself some time to recover,” concluded Hogan.
Earlier, American scientists learned that the human immune system is one of the obstacles to the treatment of coronavirus.
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