Female Hair Loss After Stevens-Johnson Syndrome

I hope you can help me. My 83 year old mother has just recovered from Stevens Johnson Syndrome. While hospitalized and for 2 weeks after she got home (December 2006) she was on high doses of steroids. Her hair has been falling out. My question is…will this hair loss slow down? Will the hair that has fallen out grow back? Is there anything we can do? Your help is very much appreciated.

Any protracted illness can precipitate female hair loss. So can systemic steroids. To find out if it will grow back, one complete telogen cycle must occur (up to 6 months). If she is still sick, the clock on regrowth starts at the time that the illness is history. See WrongDiagnosis.com – Stevens-Johnson Syndrome for more.