A Teesside woman with Alopecia has opened a semi-permanent make-up clinic to boost the confidence of other women with hair loss conditions.
Four years ago, Emma Coughlan began losing her hair. After living abroad for a decade, helping to establish schools in Saudi Arabia and Thailand, she moved home following a relationship breakup. Shortly after returning to her parent’s home in Teesside, she fell ill, and was soon diagnosed with an ectopic pregnancy, in which the fertilised egg implants itself outside the womb, often in the fallopian tube. As is generally the case with such pregnancies, Emma suffered a miscarriage.
While recovering in hospital, she noticed a small amount of hair loss, but at the time did not realise how severe it would become: “A lot of women experience hair loss in pregnancy because of a change of hormones, so I didn’t think much of it,” she told local newspaper the Gazette. “But when I got home and washed my hair, it just started coming out in my hands – it was like in a horror movie.”
Posted by The Belgravia Centre, 23rd September 2011:
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