2020-01-03 04:00:332019-10-31 13:25:36Blonde Men Can Lose a Lot of Hair and Still Look Good (Photo)
Bleeding with Microneedling
When you bleed with microneedling, it shows you are at the correct depth. From a numbers perspective, I recommend a 1.25 mm depth. I particularly like the “Dr Pen” device because you can hold it over each area and deliver an effective injury to induce the healing cascade. Once per week is adequate; more frequent use is unnecessary. The photograph shows that you are using it where you want your hairline to return. I can see that clearly by the bleeding that shows in the photo.
Bleeding and graft loss after a hair transplant (photo)
There is little that can be done at this time. Go through the post-operative care with washing until the recipient area cleans up. Then look at this recipient area very closely. You may have to wait a full 8 months to know what needs to be done, if anything
2017-12-13 07:08:522017-11-20 07:09:14Bleeding and graft loss after a hair transplant (photo)
I Had Bleeding 30 Days After My Hair Transplant (Photo)
These bleeding spots may be the sign of an infection from a few of the recipient grafts. You should go back and see your doctor to make sure that these are not spontaneously drained infections.
Bleaching my hair?
I want to bleach my hair blonde for a party but i wonder if this will cause any permanent damage? I use fin/min/nizoral and derma once a week. Could this cause anything permanent?
If you want to bleach your hair, make sure that you get an expert to do it. I have seen too many people do it on their own and get a permanent burn to the hair follicles and develop localized balding from it.
2021-02-04 02:48:212021-02-04 07:28:18Bleaching my hair?
Bleaching and Hair Loss
Hi Dr Rassman.
You have posted before that hair bleaching can damage the scalp. Is there any risk to hair through bleaching outside of the scalp issue?
My hair looks much better highlighted, and to do this the hair is pulled through a cap then highlighted by a hair stylist. Can bleaching accelerate the balding process? Is this something I have to give up?
Thanks for your time
If you bleach the hair and do not get the chemicals on the scalp, there will be no problem to the scalp; however, bleaching can damage the hair if not managed well. If you’re thinning already, risking damage to already weakened hair probably isn’t in your best interest. I don’t know anything about your hair loss situation though.
Bleached Hair at 16 and It Has Never Been the Same
(female) I am losing my hair and have been since I was 16 I am 22 now and I dont see any improvement in the matter. I bleached my hair at 16 and while the bleach was in my hair I was reading the package and noticed that it said for salon use only. I ran to the sink to wash it out and as the bleach came out handfuls of hairs did too. Being a 16 year old girl I ran to my hairdresser and she said no they probably werent falling out just breaking off. But through the years they have never came back. This has a major effect on my life, my marriage, and any activities that I do. I think about it all of the time and I dont know what to do. If you have any suggestions as of shampoos, surgerys anything… I am willing to do anything to get my hair back as well as my confidence in myself and my life. Thank you
It sounds like you may have chemically damaged your hair and considering the time you have seen no benefit, I doubt that the hair will return to your original 16 year old quality. The treatment of your hair today will have to be with conventional cosmetics, conditioners, and gels that thicken the hair shafts. You will probably be better of as a blonde (assuming you are Caucasian). At this time, there are no proven medications that I know if which you can take to change your hair character.
2006-12-01 11:31:052006-12-01 08:30:07Bleached Hair at 16 and It Has Never Been the Same
Black Tea and DHT?
I have read some studies online about black tea and dht.They seem to indicate that black tea reduces dht as much as propecia while actually increasing serum testosterone levels. Do you know anything about this
Earl Grey is black tea, and it’s probably the most common tea in the UK… where hair loss is just as prominent as anywhere else in the world. Those who try to connect DHT with the current supplement/food source of the day can have a big market impact, so it doesn’t surprise me that the buzzwords get people excited.
As far as I recall, the study about black tea and DHT was in a couple dozen lab rats and it was published a few years ago. I don’t know anything further, but I suspect that if there was anything to it, more would’ve been announced since then. If someone has more info, please feel free to let me know.
Black Market Clinics, Doctors, and Procedures
These are comments taken from a group of doctors who are concerned about patients who are sucked into ‘Black Market’ clinics or Black Market treatment.
“Black Market Hair Transplant” is companies making deceiving marketing such that the customer is offered a service/product that does not offer the benefits that are claimed.
Examples are: technicians doing surgery when it is marketed as the doctor doing it, artificial hair fibres that may have devastating complications which the patient is not made aware of, an FUE robot that claims to not have the disadvantage of human error while doing a much worse job than the average surgeon, LLT that claims to treat male pattern hair loss, PRP that claims to treat male pattern hair loss, PRP that claims to improve surgical results, the manual FUE punch marketed as less damaging to the tissue, FUE marketed as a scarless procedure, an FUE punch marketed as offering zero transections, an FUE machine marketed as the best option while the patient not being aware that the technicians are going to do the job etc.
Since regulations and even ethical standards vary significantly across the globe, it is okay to market anything that is legal within its region, provided that the customer knows what they are getting. If the patient knows for the price he is paying, he can only have technicians doing the surgery and this is what he wants then it is fine. On the other hand, if the patient is told the doctor will do the procedure and the patient is sedated during the surgery so he doesn’t see that the work is done by techs, then this is not okay.
If the patient is told that PRP is not an alternative to the traditional treatment of androgenic alopecia and that there may be some temporary benefits, then it is okay. However, if he is told that he doesn’t need to take medication and he can get his problem treated in a natural way, then this is not okay.
If the clinic says that the doctor prefers the manual punch then this is okay. On the contrary, if they tell the patient that they use a manual punch to prevent the damage that occurs with the micromotor, then this is not okay.
2019-01-29 05:01:232019-02-20 06:48:30Black Market Clinics, Doctors, and Procedures
Birth Control Pills Causing Hair Loss?
Hi! I’m 21 years old and female. In feb 2004 I started taking birth control pills, and 3 months after starting them, i started losing hair. Then after 7 months of using them i stopped, because my hair was falling out in clumps. No I have been off more than a year and i still dont see any improvement. Doctors have made bloodtests, and they were OK! Hair loss is diffuse all over and they have a little white tip at the end. In my family no one has hair problems, not even my two grandfathers or my father! Is it normal to lose hair for such a long time ? i truly believe i am going to bald soon 🙁
Thank you for your time!
Please see my previous post about Depo-Provera which answers the question about birth control pills and hair loss. Unfortunately, some women with hormone changes can precipitate female genetic hair loss and once it has started, it may not be reversed ‘if it was to be in her cards’. About 30% of women over 50 are affected by this genetic process. Although we can reasonably accept hair loss as normal in men, women have a unique type of suffering because it is another ‘attack’ on their feminity in a society that is heavily hair conscious and weighted to beauty and youth. When a young women get genetic hair loss prematurely (I fully realize that it is always premature for a woman of any age), then it is the worst type of insult that flaunts aging very painfully. What the male and female genetic hair loss is, is the ‘miniaturization’ of the hair (the thin hair that becomes even thinner as the process advances), but the location of this miniaturization is different in women than in men. Men have it develop in patterns (front to back) while women generally have it all over the head: front, top, back and sides. Some women will retain the frontal 1/2 inch of hair as healthy, even with the process of miniaturization everywhere else.
When you discussed that your tests are completely normal, I would raise the issues of Thyroid and pituitary function, as well as the absence of circulating angrogens, amongst other causes. Some doctors talk about chronic effluviums or the presence of diffuse alopecia areata (you need to have a dermatologist evaluate this).
Minoxidil does work on some women, often better than men. Some men have a diffuse patterned hair loss like women (about 1-2% of men) but some of these men are helped by Propecia (about half) while that drug has not been determined to be safe for women and even when experimentally given to women by a handful of doctors, few if any benefits were observed.