Can You Prevent Hair Loss Due To Chemotherapy?
You've heard stories that people lose all their body hair during chemotherapy treatments and you are thinking to yourself if this will happen to you as well.
No doubt that you are going to be receiving chemotherapy treatment for a good reason and it's been proven that this type of treatment is commonly used to kill cancer cells.
So in that matter you don't have a choice.
How you're body is going to react to this type of treatment is anybody's guess and as far as prevention is out of your hands.
But you do have control on your reaction to the chemotherapy treatments effects.
By knowing that you do have control over the reaction of the treatments that you will be receiving will be a deciding point in your life for the recuperation phase and that is just as important as the treatment itself.
You must have a good mindset and feel good about yourself in order to keep your psyche together.
You will probably notice between 10-14 days after you start your chemotherapy treatment that hairs will start falling off your head.
You'll notice this on your pillow or when you shampoo.
How much of this hair you will lose is dependent upon the frequency of chemotherapy treatments you are scheduled for.
Also the intensity of the treatments determines whether or not you will gradually lose hair or lose it in clumps at a time.
Knowing that you will be losing hair even a little bit will behoove you to have some preventive steps in order to cope with your hair loss.
Accepting your hair loss is the first step and treating your hair gently that you do have is appropriate.
Take care of what you have and enjoy it in the present.
If you are going to have prolonged treatment and your hair is starting to fall off consistently then it might be a good idea to go ahead and shave it off now and be done with it knowing that when you go off the chemotherapy treatment that you will grow your hair back.
If you are in the public eye a lot you can also opt for hair pieces or wigs to give the impression that you still have a head of hair.
In fact that is one of the prime resources of coping with hair loss when you go into the recovery phase of regrowing your hair.
So as you can see you cannot stop the effects of chemotherapy treatment but you can certainly stop the negative effects that the treatment will offer.
Accepting the inevitable of hair loss does not mean you will experience hair loss and never get it back.
In fact, if hair loss is primarily due to chemotherapy treatment then there's a good chance that you will have your hair grow back after treatment is completed and you get on a hair loss recovery plan you will likely grow your hair back.
No doubt that you are going to be receiving chemotherapy treatment for a good reason and it's been proven that this type of treatment is commonly used to kill cancer cells.
So in that matter you don't have a choice.
How you're body is going to react to this type of treatment is anybody's guess and as far as prevention is out of your hands.
But you do have control on your reaction to the chemotherapy treatments effects.
By knowing that you do have control over the reaction of the treatments that you will be receiving will be a deciding point in your life for the recuperation phase and that is just as important as the treatment itself.
You must have a good mindset and feel good about yourself in order to keep your psyche together.
You will probably notice between 10-14 days after you start your chemotherapy treatment that hairs will start falling off your head.
You'll notice this on your pillow or when you shampoo.
How much of this hair you will lose is dependent upon the frequency of chemotherapy treatments you are scheduled for.
Also the intensity of the treatments determines whether or not you will gradually lose hair or lose it in clumps at a time.
Knowing that you will be losing hair even a little bit will behoove you to have some preventive steps in order to cope with your hair loss.
Accepting your hair loss is the first step and treating your hair gently that you do have is appropriate.
Take care of what you have and enjoy it in the present.
If you are going to have prolonged treatment and your hair is starting to fall off consistently then it might be a good idea to go ahead and shave it off now and be done with it knowing that when you go off the chemotherapy treatment that you will grow your hair back.
If you are in the public eye a lot you can also opt for hair pieces or wigs to give the impression that you still have a head of hair.
In fact that is one of the prime resources of coping with hair loss when you go into the recovery phase of regrowing your hair.
So as you can see you cannot stop the effects of chemotherapy treatment but you can certainly stop the negative effects that the treatment will offer.
Accepting the inevitable of hair loss does not mean you will experience hair loss and never get it back.
In fact, if hair loss is primarily due to chemotherapy treatment then there's a good chance that you will have your hair grow back after treatment is completed and you get on a hair loss recovery plan you will likely grow your hair back.
