RT Journal
A1 HAZEN HH
T1 POstinfluenzal alopecia
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1919
FD May 17
VO 72
IS 20
SP 1452
OP 1452
DO 10.1001/jama.1919.02610200024010
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610200024010
AB Alopecia following any severe febrile affection is a common occurrence. Morrisey1 states that the older literature gives no references to a postinfluenzal alopecia, but Jackson and McMurtry2 note that, of ninety-seven private patients suffering from a febrile alopecia, influenza was responsible for nine.There is still some question as to whether the loss of hair after fevers is due to interference with the nutrition or to a toxin acting directly on the hair papillae, although the former view is more generally held. Most of the writers agree that a preexisting seborrhea makes the loss of hair more certain.To date I have seen fifty patients suffering from alopecia following influenza. Of these, three were men and forty-seven were women. It is highly probable that women are much more apt to consult a physician, men feeling that the affection is trivial and hardly worth troubling about. Several of the