Cold Cap to Prevent Hair Loss (chemotherapy, treatment, time, drugs)
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Some people are experiencing no hair loss during chemotherapy by using cold caps. They are caps that are placed on the head and must be changed every 20 to 30 minutes which freeze the hair follicles so they do not absorb the chemo agents and die.
Some people are experiencing no hair loss during chemotherapy by using cold caps. They are caps that are placed on the head and must be changed every 20 to 30 minutes which freeze the hair follicles so they do not absorb the chemo agents and die.
My old boss had a sister who used a home-made "cold cap" when she received chemo for her breast cancer. She did not lose her hair, but she died anyway.
My old boss had a sister who used a home-made "cold cap" when she received chemo for her breast cancer. She did not lose her hair, but she died anyway.
Oh, I'm so sorry. It is a horrible thing to fight against something like that and lose.
Whether you will lose your hair depends on the chemo drug. Generally, cold caps don't usually work. For what it's worth, I was bald after Adriamycin/Cytoxin, but it grew back fuller and lusher than it was before chemo.
I cut it short. It was still falling out. So 10:30 one night I took my own clippers and buzzed it totally off.
That's what I did. It all started coming out literally the night of my second chemo treatment. It started to grow back about 2-3 months after I completed treatment. I know have a head of full, thick hair. It came in curly, but now is softer and more wavy.
My hair came back about 4 month post chemo. It was really fine hair at first. There was a lot of blond and grey. It was 6 months after chemo that I had my first haircut.
That's what I did. It all started coming out literally the night of my second chemo treatment. It started to grow back about 2-3 months after I completed treatment. I know have a head of full, thick hair. It came in curly, but now is softer and more wavy.
Yes. Does anyone have an explanation of what happens here? My bosses wife had straight hair before her chemo and it came back curly.
Do the differences in the hair depend on which drugs they get, maybe?
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