UNEXPLAINED HAIR LOSS

UNEXPLAINED HAIR LOSS

Hair loss due to illness is a thing and it surprisingly doesn’t happen until after you recover. It’s becoming a common response with Covid. This literally will happen anytime your body has a high temperature, but people are noticing it more frequent with Covid and typically weeks to 3 months after recovery.

Illness with a high fever moves your hair out of the growth phase. Your body shifts resources to other places. Hair growth is not vital to survival so your body can put a hold on that until you are healed. The reason why you notice the significant hair loss is there is no new hair taking it’s place. It is not a permanent condition and depending on your individual phase it could take up to 9 months to shift back.

What can you do?

• Reduce stressors (external and internal)

• Improve sleep

• Don’t over exercise

• Good nutrition (no processed food)

• Quality probiotic

• Omega 3

• Collagen

• Hyaluronic acid

• Vitamins C,D, copper and zinc

• Natural hair products

Go easy on hair styling products and don’t worry. 80-90% of your hair is always growing. It will come back!

If you are experiencing hair loss out side of illness a lot of the above suggestions go for that as well but I would take a deeper dive in your hormones and gut health in those instances.