Cancer: Chemotherapy WHY Does Cause Hair Loss?
Everyone knows that the treatments used against cancer can cause hair loss. But why chemotherapy she comes to this side effect, and by what mechanism is it inevitable?
The impact of the treatment against cancer
Hair loss does not have physiological consequences. However, the psychological impact can be very strong. In addition, hair loss during treatment against cancer is the leading stigma of cancer for the patient and his entourage. The suffering that results vary from person to person and according to many parameters (sex, marital status, professional, age?).
Similarly, the solutions are multiple and depend on each.
But why the treatment against cancer causes he hair loss?
Hair loss is a side effect of chemotherapy.
Indeed, chemotherapy specifically target the cells to multiply rapidly, a characteristic of cancer cells. But then, the cancer cells are not the only ones to multiply rapidly, and this is particularly true for cells of the hair follicle responsible for hair growth and hair.
Thus, chemotherapy destroy both cancer cells and cells of the hair bulb, which causes hair loss and hair.
The fall usually starts two to three weeks after the first session of chemotherapy. The size and fall speed varies molecules, doses, frequency and duration of sessions, and the nature of hair.
Be careful, be aware that all the chemotherapy do not lead to hair loss. Just because some address other characteristics of cancer cells.
The cooling helmet
The only solution is based on preventive wearing a bonnet cooling sessions of chemotherapy. But the results vary greatly from one person to another, is very effective for some and completely useless in others. Moreover, the sensation of intense cold on the head can be difficult to bear.
The principle of the cooling helmet rests on the vasoconstriction: lowering the temperature at the scalp, the vessels are compressed, reducing the local blood circulation. The influx of drugs used in chemotherapy is hampered in this part of the body, limiting the destruction of hair follicles.
And finally, do not forget the hair and the hair grow back after stopping chemotherapy, when the body has evacuated all the molecules. At first, the nature of hair can change. But then as the hair become again a few months later.
Also read : http://healthmad.com/conditions-and-diseases/lung-cancer-the-nicotine-even-altering-chemo/
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