CAN HAIR LOSS BE PREVENTED DURING CHEMOTHERAPY?

Having cancer is terrible news. This is a life-threatening disease but very curable if found or treated early. Another distressing thing about having cancer is the chemotherapy treatment. Of all the treatments in medicine, chemotherapy actually kills you rather than treat you.

Originally, chemotherapy wasn’t used for treating cancer. During the world war, mustard gas was used for chemical warfare. Solders exposed to this chemical showed signs of weakness and easily got infected by diseases. This proved to be a very good tactic to stop invading armies.

It was found that this drug slows down the production of blood cells, including white blood cells which are important for the immune system of the body. Further studies showed that the chemical disrupts the DNA of blood vessels and affects rapidly growing cells. So in the 1940s, doctors tried to use this to fight cancer cells, hence the birth of chemotherapy.

Aside from blood cells, other rapidly growing cells are the cells in digestive system, cells in reproduction and cells of the hair follicle. That’s why the side effects of chemotherapy are: a decrease in the immune system making you prone to infections, plus weakness and dizziness due to lack of normal functioning or a decrease of blood vessels. Intestinal problems like diarrhea, constipation, nausea and vomiting and difficult bladder control, infertility and hair loss.

Of all the side effects of chemotherapy the most obvious is hair loss and probably some weight loss too but perhaps a lot of patients would consider weight loss a good thing than a bad. During the therapy, rapid hair loss usually starts at the second session of the treatment. Hair loss is inevitable and there is nothing you can do to reverse the effects of the drug on the hair follicles, so the option that you can do is wait for the treatment to end.

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