Hair follicles have been grown in Petri dishes in the past, and then transplanted into mice. All of the animals died from infection.
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I’ve had Laser treatments to remove the hair on my back and reduce the hair on my chest. I now have very little hair on my back and less on my chest.
Recently I’ve had a CATSCAN. My lymph nodes are irregular and I’m having a biopsy. I’ve been told I may have to do chemo.
I’m aware I can lose much of my hair during these treatments. I realize this is usually temporary. Will this have an effect in reversing any changes made by the Laser on my back and chest?
Thanks.
If the laser succeeded and the hair on the back and chest has been gone for more than a year or two, then the chemotherapy should not impact any regrowth of the body hair that has been removed. The reason I am saying this, is that laser hair removal (when it succeeds) kills the ‘root’ of the hair so that it will not regrow. As you probably know, the laser is about 50% effective at killing each hair, so after one treatment 50% of the hair will return within a few months of the treatment. With each successive treatment 50% of the treated hair dies, so after the second treatment 25% returns, and after the third is 12.5%, then 6%, then 3%, and so on. This assumes that modern hair lasers are used.
Your head hair (if you lose it with chemotherapy) has not been killed off, but rather a chemically induced telogen process will have been precipitated. Chemotherapeutic agents go after the faster growing cells of the body (cancers, hair, certain blood cells, sometimes intestinal cells) and that is the common thread that produces the side effects you may experience with such agents (anemia and white blood cell depletion, bleeding from depleted platelets, diarrhea and nausea from intestinal cell impact). The telogen process from chemotherapy is in the hair follicle and it usually reverses in a few months after the chemo stops. The drugs used vary and not all people lose their hair with some of the chemotherapy agents. Some of the newer chemotherapy agents are more targeted at the cancer and some of these other fast growing cells may not be impacted.
Will changing dose of finasteride from 1mg to 0.5mg per day reduce the risk of sexual side effects?
Yes, if you have aside effects, reducing the dose to half will reduce the side effects in many men.
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I have been diagnosed with miniaturization through-out the scalp.(30%) Was told it wasn’t dupa though. It is advised that those with this type of hair loss pattern keep their hair very short. Buzz cut! My hair looks horrible grown out but am afraid buzzing it every few weeks will speed up the loss. In a past question you mentioned friction on weak miniaturized hair can pull it out. What should I do?
Thanks
Buzzing hair that has miniaturization will not impact that hair unless it is poorly cut with non sharp instruments that pull. In other words, I do not believe that buzzing your hair will help it or hurt it. My advice is to style your hair any way you like it.
Body hair transplants don’t have the staying power as you get older and drop your DHT levels as body hair is dependent upon DHT for growth. This also applies to beard hair as well. That is why some men who take DHT blockers like finasteride or dustasteride lose their body hair over time and some of them find that their beards are thinner as well.
Hi Doctor Rassman,
I am 26 yr old guy having hair thinning since past 10 months. I recently started on a regimen of propecia and Minoxidil 5% since past 1 month. I plan to have an elective surgery next month which will involve Anesthesia with IV sedation. I am worried this could accelerate my hairloss/ thinning. From what I have read any surgery can cause Temporary hairloss or telogen effluvium more so due to psychological stress than light anesthesia. How true is this ? Does any surgery always result in hairloss ? Will the fact that I will be 2 months on propecia and Minox help or decrease the hairloss/thinning that might be caused because of the surgery ? Please advise whether its too risky to go for surgery as I do not want to mess up with my hair. I have had a surgery (accident fracture) before under general anes. 4 years back and did not notice any hairloss but that was because I was not having any hair issues back then.
If you have genetic hair loss, then any stress (like anesthesia and surgery) can accelerate the hair loss process in a young person. Men are less likely to have this happen and your approach wtih Minoxidil and Propecia should reasonably protect you, as much as possible. I have rarely seen hair loss in men with anesthesia and surgery outside of the scalp, but in women with genetic hair loss it is not uncommon. Many women who lose hair will regrow it, but for the few men that lose it with ongoing genetic hair loss, the return of hair is rare. Your approach seems aggressive and well-timed and would encourage you to continue on that track.
It has been 2 months since the hair transplant and now I have pus all over the graft area. What shall I do? Will it harm my hair transplant? I live in New York and went to Turkey for the transplant so my doctor can’t see me unless I fly back there.
Yes, pus throughout the recipient area is a problem and it can harm your eventual graft growth. With your doctor out of the country and inaccessible, you should find a local hair transplant doctor or a local dermatologist to get it treated ASAP. After an examination and a culture of the pus, the doctor will treat it with an appropriate antibiotic.
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Dear Sir,
I have psoriasis and may be it has caused some hair loss. I would like to know if I conduct hair transplant on the affected area can the hair grow there or the skin become worse?
I too have psoriasis and had a hair transplant twice. The psoriasis did not impact the hair transplant or vice versa. I wrote about this very topic in one of my earliest blog posts way back 5 years ago — Scalp Psoriasis and Transplants.
It’s worth noting that I doubt the psoriasis caused your hair loss unless you picked at your scalp and developed traction alopecia.
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Dear Dr Rassman,
You’ve said before that Propecia and Rogaine work best where there is still some hair left, not in completely bald areas of the scalp. If that’s the case, can having a hair transplant to a previously bald area actually increase the efficiency of the medicines in that area too ?
I think you’re confused. It is true that Propecia and Rogaine do not work in completely bald areas, but drug impact and surgical results are independent of each other. In a person with a slick bald area, the difference will come from the hair transplant and not the medication. If the hair grafts were transplanted successfully and from the donor area, those grafts will not require medication to grow. Remember, the donor area is the back horseshoe-shaped area as seen in the diagram at right. This area is permanent in most men (unless disease is present) and that is why it is used in transplantation.
Propecia and/or Rogaine can compliment the transplant for those that still have thinning areas. Sometimes, the goal of Propecia or Rogaine is to slow down further balding in the areas that you still have some hair. So to answer your question — no.
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