STIMULATE HAIR GROWTH AFTER CHEMOTHERAPY
Posted by Manny Y on 8th Apr 2015
Each time a person is diagnosed with cancer, their immediate problem is their hair growth rather than their life threading condition. Though certain cancer nowadays can be treated effectively when identifiedearly, its underlying side effect, which is hair thinning and hair loss, is inevitable.So how exactly doeschemotherapy cause hair thinning and hair loss?
First of all, cancer cells are fast growing cells, to be able to stop these cells you have to kill it using chemotherapy. Sadly, cancer cells aren’t the only fast growing cells in the body. Rapidlymultiplying cells can also be found in the lining of the intestines, blood producing cells in the bone and hair cells. This is the reason why our hair fall out when we go through a chemo session.So,
what canwe do about this? Actually, there are several options you can do:Let it be. Although the majority of patients would want to have a bald head, who knows you might
look greatwith a dome.Wear a wig. This is the
simplest solution to your inevitable hair loss. For men, a cap is preferred, but for women, there are severalorganizations that donate wigs especially for young children with cancer.Grow it fast. Don’t wait around for your hair to naturally
re-grow after your sessions. There are products that reallystimulatehair to grow faster. Fortified Amino Scalp Therapy or FAST is a special shampoo that does that and what’s great about this product is it’s made of natural ingredients.Prevent it. Today, there’s a device called a cold cap that is said to reduce or in some cases
entirely stop hair loss. This cold cap looks like a swimmers head gear, which is put on during chemo sessions. Then cold fuilds are pump into the cap cooling the scalp. As the scalp cools down, the blood vessels constrict and this reduce the blood flow to the hair follicles, therefore, minimizing the exposure of the follicles to the chemo drug. Presently, clinical studies are now in progress to test its effectively.