Two more children were found to have lost all their hair on their bodies after taking herbal medicine from Hamsoa Oriental Clinic, the same clinic as the one attended by a 27-month-old toddler, surnamed Chang, who lost all his hair after ingesting herbal medicine from the clinic. 

The Korea Herald reported on Aug. 10 that Chang lost all the hair on his body, including his eyebrows and eyelashes, after taking herbal medicine from the clinic for a week.

Similarly, another 27-month-old toddler, surnamed Kim, lost all his hair on his body after taking medicine from the same clinic. Kim‘s grandmother said in an interview with local media outlets, “We were told that the medicine should help mitigate the baby’s fever.”

Kim initially lost a portion of his hair within a fortnight of taking the medicine, which led to a bald spot the size of a coin on the top of his head. He lost all hair on his body within three months.

A five-year-old girl, surnamed Park, also lost all her hair after taking medicine from the same clinic three years ago, local news reports said. Her hair has still not grown back. Park‘s mother’s story was the same as the parents of Kim: “I was told that the medicine should help reduce my child‘s fever,” she said.

The clinic continues to deny any accountability, asserting that the cause for the loss of hair can be due to the dysfunction of the children’s immune system and not the herbal medicine.

The parents of the affected children are preparing to take legal action against the clinic.

(khnews@heraldcorp.com)

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