Nine-year-old in Phuket claims to suffer sustained severe hair loss after receiving a Covid-19 vaccine, Public Health office says not to jump to conclusions

[webfact]

 

By Goongnang Suksawat

 

Phuket – A nine-year-old girl in Thalang has sustained severe hair loss after receiving a second Covid-19 vaccine two months ago and her family and the girl blame it on the vaccine.

 

Her mother, Mrs. Jeeranan, whose last name was withheld to protect the identity of the child, told the Phuket Express, “My daughter likes to play sports. She is healthy.

 

About two months ago she received a second dose of a Covid -19 vaccine before her hair started to fallout. She was infected with Covid-19 after receiving the vaccine too.”

 

Full story: https://thephuketexpress.com/2022/08/31/nine-year-old-in-phuket-claims-to-suffer-sustained-severe-hair-loss-after-receiving-a-covid-19-vaccine-public-health-office-says-not-to-jump-to-conclusions/

 

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[smedly]

31 minutes ago, webfact said:

A nine-year-old girl in Thalang has sustained severe hair loss after receiving a second Covid-19 vaccine two months ago and her family and the girl blame it on the vaccine.

hair loss.....what hair loss, perfectly normal..................right ?

 

poor girl to have to go through that

[Dan O]

Interesting how the Covid Vaccine is blamed for the hair loss. Hmmm, Alopecia comes to mind. 

[AsianAtHeart]

There's a reason many call it "the clot shot."  It often causes microclotting in random places throughout the body.  She should be happy that the clotting has obstructed her hair follicles instead of her optic nerve, as a 20-year-old friend of mine experienced in Laos after receiving the Sinopham shot--permanently losing his eyesight in one eye less than a week after the shot.  He later visited Thai doctors, got MRI scans...the works, but there's no fixing what happened now--too late.  The MRIs showed the clotting, but cannot restore the vision.  Once the optic nerve has lost its blood support and decayed, that's it...blinded for life.

[lupin]

On 8/31/2022 at 3:03 PM, Dan O said:

Interesting how the Covid Vaccine is blamed for the hair loss. Hmmm, Alopecia comes to mind. 

22 percent of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 had experienced hair loss, which typically happens after stress, a shock, or a traumatic event. [Lancet 2021;397:220-232]

Another study showed that patients who had a COVID-19 infection were nearly four times as likely to have hair loss (hazard ratio [HR], 3.99) compared with those who were not infected. [Nat Med 2022;doi.org/10.1038/s41591-022-w] ... not a stretch to at least investigate the possibility of spike derived vaccine to have similar effects

 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673620326568

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01909-w

[AsianAtHeart]

56 minutes ago, Dan O said:

Interesting how the Covid Vaccine is blamed for the hair loss. Hmmm, Alopecia comes to mind. 

Baldness in a previously normal nine-year-old girl?  Who are you kidding?

[Dan O]

9 minutes ago, lupin said:

22 percent of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 had experienced hair loss, which typically happens after stress, a shock, or a traumatic event. [Lancet 2021;397:220-232]

Another study showed that patients who had a COVID-19 infection were nearly four times as likely to have hair loss (hazard ratio [HR], 3.99) compared with those who were not infected. [Nat Med 2022;doi.org/10.1038/s41591-022-w] ... not a stretch to at least investigate the possibility of spike derived vaccine to have similar effects

Yes covid infection is more likely than the vaccine to be connected if their is an association, which the girl had after vaccination. The headline is more an attempt at sensationalism for readers than fact. 

[Dan O]

2 minutes ago, AsianAtHeart said:

Baldness in a previously normal nine-year-old girl?  Who are you kidding?

Not kidding anyone. I never said it was normal but there are a number of factors that cause hair loss.  Just stating that its interesting the headline used. Covid infection rather than vaccine has been shown as a possible impact factor to stimulate hair loss. 

[sammieuk1]

So that's what happened to my hair who do I sue ???? 

[partington]

6 hours ago, AsianAtHeart said:

 

The spike protein is the part of the virus that allows it to enter cells, an essential preliminary to the virus replicating itself. The virus releases its RNA genome which uses the host cells' machinery to synthesise around 20 structural and accessory proteins, and copies of the RNA genome itself which are then assembled within the cell into thousands of virus copies, which are released into the body to infect other cells.

 

The symptoms of the disease ["toxicity" ] are caused by the body's immune and inflammatory systems attacking the respiratory cells which have been infected and creating a cell-destroying and organ-disrupting inflammation in the lungs and upper respiratory system, as well as the destruction of these cells by the virus itself.

 

It is not yet fully understood what causes the rare clotting disorders in some people, but it has been observed that in these people an autoantibody to a platelet clotting factor is almost always found, suggesting in these people an antibody to their own platelets has somehow been evoked. Research suggests this is linked to the adenovirus vector used in some vaccines and not the spike protein they produce

 

 [https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/2589446-scientists-may-have-solved-an-important-part-of-the-mystery-of-ultra-rare-blood-clots-linked-to-adenovirus-covid-19-vaccines]

 

The spike protein by itself is harmless - this is the whole point of vaccination  - it creates an immune response through the injection of something which doesn't cause a disease!

[lupin]

34 minutes ago, Dan O said:

Yes covid infection is more likely than the vaccine to be connected if their is an association, which the girl had after vaccination. The headline is more an attempt at sensationalism for readers than fact. 

Except you only need to do the most surface level search to see the absolute plethora of metadata, observational studies to see vaccine related hair loss... US CDC also warns against the increased risk of hair loss... its not an unknown for crying out load. 

[AsianAtHeart]

24 minutes ago, partington said:

The spike protein by itself is harmless

Patently false.  Just search online for "spike protein effects."  You'll find plenty.  Here is just one article of many: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34100279/

 

If you just read the abstract, you will see that studies have shown "that the spike protein by itself (without being part of the corona virus) can damage endothelial cells and disrupt the blood-brain barrier. "

 

I wonder why you are downplaying the effects of the vaccine when these are well known.  Conflict of interest?

[PremiumLane]

2 hours ago, lupin said:

to see the absolute plethora of metadata, observational studies to see vaccine related hair loss...

so not worth much then

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, sammieuk1 said:

So that's what happened to my hair who do I sue ???? 

Anutin... I wish you the best of luck.. ????

[MrJ2U]

7 hours ago, smedly said:

hair loss.....what hair loss, perfectly normal..................right ?

 

poor girl to have to go through that

Doesn't mean it was the vaccine.

 

First reported hair loss in 12.6 billion shots.

 

Unfortunate, but further test will be required. 

 

It could be "Alopecia Areata"

 

https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/hair-loss/hair-loss-alopecia

 

[transam]

5 hours ago, AsianAtHeart said:

Baldness in a previously normal nine-year-old girl?  Who are you kidding?

I had it at 17 wiv no jabs......????

[onthedarkside]

A post with unsourced and unsubstantiated claims has been removed, along with several trolling comments.

 

[swm59nj]

It might have caused it or not.  One will never know. And the vaccine cannot be blamed. And just because a person was healthy one day.  Doesn’t mean they can’t get a medical condition the next. 
And the vaccine studies on young children are still fairly new. 
Different people react to different things.  Unfortunately there is no way of knowing until you get a reaction 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

It appears hair loss, often temporary, can be a potential side effect of BOTH COVID infections and COVID vaccinations in certain cases.

 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8673931/

 

"Alopecia areata (AA) is a T lymphocyte-mediated autoimmune condition characterized by hair loss due to an inflammatory response targeting the hair follicle. Recent reports have suggested that COVID-19 may trigger a variety of autoimmune conditions, including AA. Herein, we report 9 cases of AA following SARS-CoV-2 vaccination."

...

"Hair loss following SARS-CoV-2 vaccination is an increasingly reported phenomenon in the United States and globally.... This report is limited by the fact that cause and effect cannot be clearly identified in any of the cases."

 

"Of note, many medical treatments exist for alopecia, and spontaneous hair regrowth is estimated to occur in approximately 80% of patients within a year after the first incidence of hair loss."

 

Also more here on how COVID infection itself can cause hair loss:

 

"The prevalence of hair loss has increased during COVID-19. In this study, we review the current literature on incidence and characteristics of various types of COVID-19-related and COVID-19-vaccine- related hair loss..."

 

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dth.15433

 

[The Hammer2021]

Yes its possible- but so what? It will probably  grow back.

[ed strong]

Absolutely gross that they are jabbing 9 year olds.

 

Sure if you are over 60 and suffer from some ailments then sure take the flu and cold jabs but other than that its disgusting to see what is happening.

[Thingamabob]

I've felt awful since my first jab, even worse after the second and third, but no hair loss so far.

[transam]

1 hour ago, ed strong said:

Absolutely gross that they are jabbing 9 year olds.

 

Sure if you are over 60 and suffer from some ailments then sure take the flu and cold jabs but other than that its disgusting to see what is happening.

I was jabbed many times, way younger than 9....????

[Liverpool Lou]

11 hours ago, lupin said:

22 percent of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 had experienced hair loss, which typically happens after stress, a shock, or a traumatic event. [Lancet 2021;397:220-232]

Another study showed that patients who had a COVID-19 infection were nearly four times as likely to have hair loss (hazard ratio [HR], 3.99) compared with those who were not infected. [Nat Med 2022;doi.org/10.1038/s41591-022-w] ... not a stretch to at least investigate the possibility of spike derived vaccine to have similar effects

That report is related to Covid infections, not to the vaccines, the vaccines were not mentioned at all, so it is a bit of a stretch considering the multi-millions of vaccinated people and the infinitesimally small numbers of reported hair loss cases.

[Liverpool Lou]

10 hours ago, AsianAtHeart said:

11 hours ago, Dan O said:

Interesting how the Covid Vaccine is blamed for the hair loss. Hmmm, Alopecia comes to mind. 

Baldness in a previously normal nine-year-old girl?  Who are you kidding?

Blaming a Covid vaccine for baldness that has not been shown to be the cause for hair loss in a nine-year old ?  Who are you kidding?

[transam]

This thread will give the anti-vax lot something to dribble over...????

[EricTh]

21 minutes ago, Thingamabob said:

I've felt awful since my first jab, even worse after the second and third, but no hair loss so far.

Which vaccine did you take?

[Liverpool Lou]

1 hour ago, ed strong said:

Absolutely gross that they are jabbing 9 year olds.

"Absolutely gross" that you're suggesting that it's being forced on them.

[EricTh]

10 hours ago, Dan O said:

Not kidding anyone. I never said it was normal but there are a number of factors that cause hair loss.  Just stating that its interesting the headline used. Covid infection rather than vaccine has been shown as a possible impact factor to stimulate hair loss. 

 

I thought Covid infection affects the lungs .... correct me if I am wrong.

 

It's more common for boys to have hair loss but not girls in terms of genetics. That's why there are more bald men but no bald women when they grow older.

 

[The Hammer2021]

31 minutes ago, transam said:

I was jabbed many times, way younger than 9....????

Polio was the first I remember about 6 years old.