I Caught Covid Eight Times and Now I’m Completely Bald – it’s Taken Months for Me to Leave the House Without a Wig; I got COVID eight times and went bald (VIDEO), and other C-Virus related stories

By admin On Oct 8, 2024

I caught covid eight times and now I’m completely bald – it’s taken months for me to leave the house without a wig:

A young woman has claimed that catching covid eight times left her bald and revealed the courage it has taken her to leave the house without a wig.

Lydia Morley, 23, from Newport, Wales, first noticed her long, thick brown hair thinning and falling out in the shower last November.

‘Whenever I’d brush my hair in the shower, I’d have proper clumps come out,’ Lydia said. ‘It was getting to the point where it was a little bit strange.’

After her father noticed a bald patch on the back of her head in January of this year, Lydia booked an appointment with the GP and was diagnosed with alopecia areata – a disease that occurs when the immune system attacks hair follicles causing them to fall out.

Doctors initially put the diagnosis down to stress but Lydia, who claims to be the ‘least stressed person ever’, now believes her alopecia could be caused long covid.

The vintage shop supervisor said she has suffered eight bouts of covid since 2020.

She said: ‘I think after having it so many times my immune system has just been dampened and dampened.

‘I had covid at the end of November for the eighth time and then I started seeing my hair falling out after that.’

Although doctors agreed that long covid could be the cause, they emphasised that alopecia is not fully understood.

Advice on the NHS said: ‘Hair is lost because it is affected by inflammation. The cause of this inflammation is unknown but it is thought that the immune system, the natural defence which normally protects the body from infections and other diseases, may attack the growing hair.

‘Why this might happen is not fully understood, nor is it known why only localised areas are affected and why the hair usually regrows again.’ —>READ MORE HERE

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