Hair Regrowth After Chemo - What Steps Can I Take To Regrow My Hair?

Unfortunately, there are millions of patients suffering from cancer in hospitals. Chemotherapy is absolutely necessary for cancer patients. Chemotherapy through its agents kills the cancer cells from the body of the patient.

Unfortunately, chemotherapy can't see whether e cell is healthy or sick with cancer. The scalp is the most affected part of the human body by chemotherapy. Cells that are supposed to make your hair grow are killed with the cancer ones. This will result hair loss all over your scalp. After the treatment is finished, hair will grow again after some time.

Before starting a chemotherapy treatment your doctor will tell you which the expected degree of the hair loss is. The expected degree depends on three factors: the dosage of the treatment, the type of chemotherapy and how often you will need to go to therapy sessions.

Before and during your chemotherapy treatment you need to do some things that will reduce the need for growing your hair once sessions are over. For the regrowing of the hair to be fast you have to do these things:

Scalp Hypothermia

This is one of the things that you should do prior or during chemotherapy. This method constitutes of placing cold objects on your scalp. This way you can reduce the devastating effect that chemotherapy has on your hair. There are two big disadvantages that scalp hypothermia has: one of them is that it is uncomfortable and may produce brain freezes. The other one is that it has a small chance to help cancer cells survive chemotherapy and move in the scalp area.

Regrowing your hair with Minoxidil

There are only two treatments approved by the US government to regain lost hair. Minoxidil has to be applied directly to the scalp in order to help regrowing hair. After a period of time it has its effect for both men and women. Women should use the 2% concentration instead of the 5% used by men.

Things you can do until your hair regrows

It is a long time until hair regrows from the affected scalp. During this time you will have to adapt with a life with no hair. Luckily there are some things you can do until your hair fully recovers from its damage:

a) Take care of your hair

Do not use cosmetics on your hair because they can provoke irritations of your scalp. Also try to comb your hair as gently as possible thus avoiding breaking your hair. Use soft pillows in order for your hair to be safe from pulling.

b) Choose carefully your hair products

Use only mild products for your hair. Is you use antidandruff shampoos or harsh balms your problem will aggravate. In this period baby shampoos and oils are recommended for your scalp.

c) Wigs

Wearing a wig is not so uncommon as it was many years ago. Now there are wigs that imitate natural hair perfectly. If you find a wig that has the right size for your head you will look very natural.

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