“Patients have literally come in with bags of hair looking like a full head of hair was in the bag,” a New York dermatologist said.
While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention doesn’t recognize hair loss as a symptom of COVID-19, more than 27 percent of at least 1,100 poll respondents in theDr. Michele S. Green, a dermatologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, said there’s been an influx of patients seeking treatment for hair loss during quarantine and after she reopened her office.
“Patients have literally come in with bags of hair looking like a full head of hair was in the bag,” she said. “They all have similar stories. That they were extremely sick with high fevers and have never been that sick in their entire lives.” Doctors say hair loss may not be caused by the virus itself but by the physical shock patients’ bodies experience as they battle high fevers and other intense symptoms.
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