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Recently, an American actress urged people to take seriously the epidemic of COVID-19 caused by the new coronavirus and revealed that many months after falling victim to it, their hair is now in the form of tufts.
Elsa Milano was diagnosed with the coronavirus in March and this month, five months later, she posted a video on social media showing her hair falling out.
Long-term effects such as fatigue, difficulty breathing, and muscle weakness have been somewhat confirmed in people recovering from the coronavirus, but now medical experts warn that hair loss can also be a long-term effect of the epidemic. Is.
The British Association of Dermatologists (BAD) has reported a significant number of patients in recent months who have experienced dramatic hair loss following symptoms of COVID-19.
According to BAD, the long-term effects of the virus on hair follicles are still unknown.
Dr. Sharon Wong of BAD said that patients are experiencing a condition called telogen effusion (which causes hair loss as a result of stress, trauma or shock).
He said that some of the patients who showed symptoms of COVID-19 in March and April experienced hair loss during June and July.
"I have diagnosed telogen effusion in most of these people. We have to see if it is linked to COVID or the result of epidemic-related stress and illness because the problem comes up several months later," he said.
Research reports also highlight the relationship between epidemics and hair loss.
Researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine in the United States, in a survey of nearly one and a half thousand people, found that one-third of people suffer from hair loss as a long-term effect of COVID-19
A study by Turkey's Usak University School of Medicine found that the number of people who lost their hair rapidly after the Coronavirus outbreak has increased significantly compared to before the outbreak.
It is common to lose 30 to 150 hairs a day, but in the telogen effioum, the hairs fall out in the form of tufts.
This effect is usually temporary and the normal cycle of hair loss is restored in 6 months.
But Dr. Sharon said that we do not yet know how COVID-19 affects the hair in different ways or how patients can control it.
"These are early days and this is a new virus," he said.
According to her, she will now monitor patients for a long time and analyze the actual effects of the virus on the hair.
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