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What to do when hair loss and mask-induced acne strike.

Tay Suan Chiang

Published Thu, Jul 30, 2020 · 09:50 PM

Wellness

CAN Covid-19 make your hair fall out? Can wearing a mask give you acne?

Yes and yes. So if you're seeing more strands of hair caught in your shower drain, don't panic. Or maybe you should, but at least there's something you can do about it.

Peggy Goh, principal trichologist at The DRx Medispa, says the stress from Covid-19 could have something to do with sudden falling tresses.

Hair fall can be hereditary or triggered by external factors, and of late, Ms Goh has been seeing an increasing number of clients who fear that they are losing too much hair, and many of them are women.

"I usually ask them to think back three months, to see i…