How To Take Care For Your Newly Operated Hair?

Caring for newly operated hair can be quite difficult if you don’t know the ropes; which is why we’ve compiled some of the basic guidelines for such an undertaking.

1. Ask Your Doctor

Your doctor is responsible for your general wellbeing and your hair’s health during and after surgery. You can hold your surgeon accountable for any pain or infections that may arise from the procedure itself.

Ideally, your doctor should be very open about the procedure itself and should explain in writing what you should know post-operation. A good grafting procedure would not produce extreme pain and should heal on its own after a few days.

2. Keeping The Site Clean

Two of the worst enemies of newly operated hair are:

• Crusting

• Infection

Ask your doctor how to wash the newly grafted hair and how to minimize the interference of your daily activities in the fixing phase of newly grafted hair. You would notice in the first few days that your hair is a bit loose and non-fixed. Ideally, this condition should improve in the following days. The hair should become permanent in a week or less.

If the hairs remain unstable, you should immediately arrange for a consultation with your doctor to find out just what’s wrong. Follow up consultations are vital in determining whether the procedure had been completely successful or only partially successful. The degree of success of the first operation would determine when follow-up operations would be held, or if they are still necessary.

3. Hair Surgery Tips

Yes, there would be a bit of blood. After all, your scalp just underwent minor surgery. But here’s the good news; if you do find a bit of blood from the donor area in your scalp, you can simply use a clean, sterilize and apply direct pressure on the bleeding areas. The clean gauze may even be sent home with you after the procedure, alongside creams or ointments that would keep the donor area clean and free from bacterial infection.

Ideally, your bleeding spots should cease from spouting blood the first few seconds of applying pressure. If the spots don’t cease from releasing drops of blood, there’s something wrong. Call your doctor as a bleeding scalp may cause secondary infection, post-surgery.

4. Styling, Post-Operation

If your hair grafting procedure had been handled by a competent hair doctor, you should be fine after a week of recovering. If there are scars or marks that point the grafts out, you can simply style your hair differently so that the marks would be hidden. You may have been already briefed, but we’re going to repeat something important here. The new hairs would not be appearing immediately. In fact, you might have lost hope already when the newly grown hairs begin poking through your scalp.

It would take at least 3 to 6 months before the new hairs begin emerging from the site of the skin grafts. This is just the beginning growth phase of the new hair. We’re talking about millimeter per millimeter of growth of hair. It would take an addition 8 to 9 months before your new hair can be styled amply.

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