Hair loss common after COVID-19 infection

Clinicians are seeing an influx of patients experiencing an unsettling side effect after COVID-19: losing their hair.

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Dr. Brian Abittan, the director of skin and hair rejuvenation at Mount Sinai Health System in New York, said that he sees multiple patients a week who have reported hair loss after COVID-19.

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Although more patients are clearly reporting the symptom after COVID, there isn't robust data describing how many patients experience this phenomenon or what factors put someone at risk for it.

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Experts say the good news is that it appears to be temporary and clinicians should reassure patients that their hair will very likely grow back.

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Some evidence has shown that there is an increased risk of hair loss following COVID infection.

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A study published in Nature Medicine last month found that hair loss was one of a wide range of symptoms that post-COVID patients reported to their primary care physicians.

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