Clinical Course of Alopecia After COVID-19

    May 2021 in “ International Journal of Infectious Diseases ”
    Tetsuya Suzuki, Satoshi Kutsuna, Sho Saito, Akira Kawashima, Ayako Okuhama, Kohei Kanda, Lubna Sato, Makoto Inada, Yutaro Akiyama, Satoshi Ide, Keiji Nakamura, Takato Nakamoto, Kei Yamamoto, Masahiro Ishikane, Noriko Kinoshita, Shinichiro Morioka, Kayoko Hayakawa, Norio Ohmagari
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    TLDR A man experienced hair loss after getting COVID-19, which improved with treatment and might have been triggered by stress related to the illness.
    A 49-year-old man developed alopecia, a type of hair loss, after contracting COVID-19. He began treatment with minoxidil 5 mg/day and finasteride 1 mg/day in June 2020, and his condition started to improve by August 2020. The course of his alopecia is consistent with telogen effluvium, a type of hair loss that can occur after physical and psychological stress. The stress of isolation, limited information about COVID-19, anxiety about the illness, and prejudice after hospital discharge may have triggered the alopecia. The medications may have slightly contributed to the improvement, but the rapid progression is inconsistent with androgenic alopecia. Further research is needed to understand the pathogenesis of alopecia after COVID-19.
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