Multiple choice

22 year female taken medicine for typhoid fever 3 months back. She developed generalized loss of hair,

  1. Telogen effluvium

  2. Anagen effluvium

  3. Alopecia areata

  4. None of these
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Explanation

Telogen effluvium causes generalized hair loss 2-3 months after a systemic stressor (illness, fever, medications like antibiotics for typhoid). It is a reversible, diffuse shedding of telogen hairs. Anagen effluvium is abrupt loss from chemotherapy, alopecia areata causes patchy loss, and the timeline points clearly to telogen effluvium.

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