Is It True That Covid19 Stress Can Cause Hair Loss?
Well, everyone has heard of COVID-19. Almost everyone on this planet is familiar with this devastating virus. The common symptoms of this virus are dry cough, fever, shortness of breath and tiredness. This virus directly or indirectly affects humans in various ways. 

Does the stress of Covid19 cause hair loss? As we learn more about COVID-19, health experts have confirmed that respiratory infections can cause many unusual symptoms, sometimes including loss of taste and smell, itchy lesions in the hands and feet, and swelling of the eyelids. But can Coronavirus also cause hair loss? According to doctors, this is possible. Although most people will recover and return to normal health, some people who survived COVID-19 may face a puzzling situation called chronic COVID, in which they test negative for the virus, but strange symptoms will appear within weeks or months after their recovery. Although stress may be one explanation for this, another possible explanation is that coronaviruses damage blood vessels, which are the lifeline of hair follicles. 

What is the relationship between COVID-19 and hair loss?

Usually, there are 5% resting hair follicles on the scalp, 10% shedding hair follicles, and 90% growing hair follicles. However, in the case of hair loss due to COVID-19, it means that the shedding hair follicles are 40% due to telogen hair loss. -50%. This is a very worrying situation and can lead to very painful hair loss. 

Some COVID-19 survivors say that hair loss occurs in large clusters. Eventually, thin areas are formed on the scalp. Therefore, fighting COVID-19 is not easy. Hair loss is mainly seen in COVID-19 patients over 30 years old. 

How does COVID-19 affect your hair? 
In addition, except for the Coronavirus, people mainly lose their hair in the following situations: 

• Unemployment
• Divorce
• Family death
• Financial problems. 

All the reasons mentioned above can cause psychological and physical trauma. The direct impact of COVID-19 can be seen in the following way: 

Stress and anxiety: The main causes of hair loss are stress and anxiety. People with COVID-19 develop a disease called telogen alopecia after a stressful illness event. When women give birth, they also experience extreme hair loss due to stress, anxiety, and hormonal changes. Within 90-120 days after recovering from Coronavirus, people experience a lot of hair loss, in some cases in clumps, and 50 to 100 hair strands per day. As we all know, in COVID-19, the patient becomes completely lonely. There is no reliable data to show that COVID-19 affects or weakens hair follicles. 

Fever: High fever can also lead to extreme stress conditions because fighting the virus is not easy for the body. 

COVID-19 and Cortisol: When a person experiences disease or illness, the body will be temporarily shocked, which causes many hair follicles to shed due to improper circulation. When the body is under stress, it releases hormones such as adrenaline, cortisol, and noradrenaline from the HPA pathway, which connects the hypothalamus, pituitary and adrenal glands and affects the hair cycle when cortisol is released into the skin. 

On the other hand, cortisol will also push the hair follicles into a stage where they stop growing and fall naturally after a few days. Too much cortisol in the scalp can cause peripheral blood vessels to constrict, leading to poor blood circulation. More cortisol will cause an increase in mast cells around the hair follicles, which are white blood cells that can fight infection, but when there are more, they will affect cell division in the hair follicles. Therefore, people who have recovered from the Coronavirus may experience hair loss for 1 to 2 months because of the high-stress level in this situation. 

Less oxygenated blood: People infected with the Coronavirus will experience shortness of breath, which means that there is not enough body breathing, and the blood cannot carry all the nutrients and circulate in all parts of the body. The scalp may also be the area that receives the least oxygen, and the hair follicles lack nutrients, thus reducing the circulation of hair loss. 

The indirect impact of COVID-19 on hair loss
Due to the ongoing conditions of COVID-19, people are under pressure due to loss; some have lost their jobs, some have lost their loved ones, and some have problems with food intake. All of these situations cause emotional stress. Furthermore, when people are isolated, they lose their social life, which puts them in anxiety. This is also a kind of emotional stress, which is a very unstable period for everyone. 

What are you going to do now? 
Therefore, if you have been sick due to COVID-19, the first thing to do is to pay attention to your diet and get proper nutrition so that every kind of nutrition can reach your scalp and hair follicles. You get this condition every time you are infected with a virus that causes fever and puts stress on your body, making your hormones out of balance. Whenever you experience hair loss, you should see a dermatologist. They will tell you the real cause of hair loss because this is your body’s natural response to any disease. 

How to treat hair loss caused by COVID-19? 
After a year and a half, it can treat itself without any outside help. The hair began to grow on its own, and everything returned to normal. However, if your scalp area has inflammation, irritation, redness, or your scalp is hot, then you need to see a dermatologist to let him know what is going on with your scalp. You should have a blood test first, as this will tell you which nutrients, vitamins or supplements are the least in your blood. The patient should check the following nutrients, mainly to diagnose what you need to eat. 

• Iron
• Ferritin 
• Zinc
• Folate
• Vitamin D3

You can also get some prescription medications. 
Scalp injection is also a very good way to treat this condition; in this case, the plasma is injected into the bald spot or affected area. This is also called PRP treatment, which is a fairly common method of hair regrowth. Unfortunately, we cannot predict how long it will take because it varies from person to person. 

Conclusion:
We can also calculate hair loss, but this is only the result of stress, not the virus specifically entering the scalp and causing damage. For more information, contact Hairsure Clinic and for best treatment at 083310 20202.