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How to Take Care after Hair Transplant Surgery
Once you have made the decision to have hair
transplant surgery, you are probably jumping ahead
to thinking about your post-op plans. You most
likely cannot wait to see the faces on your friends
and acquaintances when they notice your new full
head of hair. In the meantime, you have to go
through the surgery and take care so that your hair
transplant will be successful.
Your hair transplant will not heal unless you keep
the newly operated-on skin out of the sunlight. The
surgery will make the skin especially sensitive. If
you protect the skin on your scalp after getting a
scalp hair transplant, you will help the wounds heal
much faster.
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You can start out by getting some kind of hat. It
does not matter what kind of hat it is, as long as
it is fairly loose-fitting so that it does not rub
on your new hair transplant grafts. You should not
have to put up with this for long. After a couple of
weeks, you can replace the cap with sunscreen. It
should have an SPF of at least 30.
Having just the right amount of blood flow to the
hair transplant sites will make a big difference in
how fast they heal. For example, you need to make
sure you get enough blood flow during the night. You
can do this by sleeping on pillows to elevate your
head. Your usual pillows can be used, or you can buy
wedge-shaped pillows made for this purpose.
On the other hand, you do not want too much blood
flow. You should get plenty of rest after your hair
transplant surgery. For the first few weeks it is
not wise to engage in any physically demanding
activities. Then, the blood flow will be too much.
Your transplants may start to bleed.
It is important to clean your hair just as your
doctor recommends after hair transplant surgery. You
will be given a special shampoo to use and specific
instructions on how and when to use it. It is
necessary to clean gently but thoroughly. At first,
you may find yourself rinsing your hair many times a
day. Just be sure that you do not bother the hair
transplant site by scratching or rubbing it.
Your hair transplant doctor will want you to come in
for a check of your transplants about a week after
your surgery. Be sure to be at that appointment on
time. If you have any questions about how to care
for your hair, bring them up at that time.
your doctor when you will be ready to use a comb on
your new hair. You might be surprised at how soon
you can use one. Then, your doctor will schedule
other check-ups, which you should also attend.
At first it may seem as if you have to be very
careful with your hair - and you do! It does not
make sense to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars
having your hair transplant surgery and then not
follow through with good care. However, in no time
at all, you will be treating this new hair just as
you treated the hair you once had there.
