Mother reveals she was left with a bald patch due to hair loss triggered by Covid-19 stress – Daily Mail
A woman has revealed how she was left with a bald patch after suffering hair loss triggered by the pandemic.
Charlotte Hawksley, 33, from Bournemouth, first noticed a bald patch the size of a 10p coin on top of her head in November 2020.
Over the following months she noticed clumps of hair falling out in the shower, until eventually the patch was roughly the size of a fist.
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A woman has revealed how she was left with a bald patch after suffering hair loss triggered by the pandemic.
Charlotte Hawksley, 33, from Bournemouth, first noticed a bald patch the size of a 10p coin on top of her head in November 2020.
Over the following months she noticed clumps of hair falling out in the shower, until eventually the patch was roughly the size of a fist.
A doctor diagnosed the issue as hair loss caused by stress. There are several types of stress-related hair loss. One of the most common is telogen effluvium (TE), which is when significant stress pushes large numbers of hair follicles into a resting phase, leading the hair to fall out when combing or washing.
Charlotte Hawksley, 33, from Bournemouth, first noticed a bald patch the size of a 10p coin on top of her head in November 2020. Over the following months she noticed clumps of hair falling out in the shower, until eventually the patch was roughly the size of a fist (pictured)
Charlotte, a sales assistant who lives with daughter Evie, 10, said she ‘didn’t think much of it’ when she first spotted the bald patch but eventually had to hide the baldness with hair bands
‘The fact it was down to stress makes sense because of the pandemic and my daughter was diagnosed with diabetes,’ Charlotte said. ‘I didn’t feel particularly stressed at the time but in hindsight it does make sense.’
Women around the world have reported hair loss as a symptom of pandemic-related stress.
Charlotte, a sales assistant who lives with daughter Evie, 10, said she ‘didn’t think much of it’ when she first spotted the bald patch.
She said: ‘I noticed a small patch the size of a ten pence and I didn’t really think much of it. I’ve got quite thick hair so it was easy to hide if I just combed my hair over and it wasn’t a massive issue.
The sales assistant first noticed a bald patch the size of a 10p coin at the top of her head (pictured) but it grew in a matter of weeks. She said the baldness impacted her self-confidence
Charlotte said the bald patch (pictured) left her feeling self-conscious. Recently the hair has started to regrow, although it is still ‘noticeable’
‘I noticed that more of it was falling out when I was brushing it and there were clumps of it in the bath when I washed it.
