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Nausea, fever, now hair loss? COVID-19 stress causing female survivors to lose hair, doctors say – Houston Chronicle
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve been told to watch out for headaches, nausea, fatigue and fever, among other symptoms, but I don’t think anyone was prepared for hair loss.
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve been told to watch out for headaches, nausea, fatigue and fever, among other symptoms, but I don’t think anyone was prepared for hair loss.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention doesn’t list hair loss as a symptom of COVID-19, but doctors aren’t surprised they’re seeing it more and more in survivors.
It’s a condition called telogen effluvium, and it happens when (physical or mental) stress pushes large numbers of hair follicles into …
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