There are various major causes of hair loss among which hair loss due to stress, hair loss after pregnancy and natural hair loss are some major causes. Chemotherapy or therapy with potent drugs to treat cancer can often cause severe hair loss which is otherwise known as Alopecia. This chemotherapy hair loss takes place because the cells in the hair follicles grow fast and chemotherapy hampers fast growing cells. Hair loss because of Chemotherapy however is temporary and hair grows back grow back once the chemotherapy treatment ends.
However not all chemotherapy drugs cause equal amount of all hair loss. Some types of Chemotherapy just cause thinning and while others result in dramatic hair loss including the body hair and eye brows.
Apart from that the rate of chemotherapy Hair Loss is different for different people because tolerances to the drugs varies from from person to person. Sometimes for certain people Chemotherapy hair loss occurs when it is not expected and sometimes in other cases no hair loss occurs when it is expected. Chemotherapy Hair loss can start any time from after the first few days after chemotherapy to within a few weeks.
Hair loss due to Chemotherapy is temporary in nature and your hair will grow back once treatment is complete. Though the hair that grows after chemotherapy is often very fine, very like a babies hair. Your clinic nurse can arrange for you to have a wig before your treatment starts Within three to six months after chemotherapy you should have regained a full head of hair although the hair that will regrow might be different from the hair your possessed before your treatment in terms of color and texture. Prevention of chemotherapy hair loss can be done to some extent and this is done by arresting as much of the chemotherapy drug getting to your scalp as possible can do this. For this purpose a cold cap is used that helps to cool the scalp and therefore restrict blood circulating in that area and reaching the follicles. The cap is usually put on fifteen minutes before chemotherapy to start restricting blood flow, and kept on during and up to 1-2 hours after your chemotherapy.
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