More and more people in the world suffer from long COVID or post COVID vaccine syndromes, with common symptoms like brain fog, reduced physical strength, and loss of taste and smell.
Another common effect is hair loss.
Why does this coronavirus lead to hair loss? Dr. Shu Rong, a senior traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) practitioner based in the UK, explained the causes of hair loss from the perspectives of TCM and Western medicine, and shared ways to reverse this problem.
The University of Birmingham in the UK studied the impact of SARS-CoV-2 and 115 symptoms based on the health records of 2.4 million people. They found that 62 symptoms in place three months after suffering from COVID-19 were significantly related to COVID-19 infection, and many of these symptoms have not been classified as the symptoms of long COVID, including the relatively new symptom of hair loss. The study was published in Nature Medicine….