Accelerate Hair Growth After Transplantation
I have recently seen a product called ‘Oat-Beta Glucan’ which a friend of mine had been recommended to be applied to his head after hair transplants. What do you know about things that make hair transplants grow better and faster, and how do they work?
In 1998, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued its final rule allowing health claims to be made on the labels of foods containing soluble fiber from whole oats (oat bran, oat flour and rolled oats), noting that these foods, in conjunction with a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol, may reduce the risk of heart disease. In order to qualify for the health claim, the whole oat-containing food must provide at least 0.75 grams of soluble fiber per serving. The soluble fiber in whole oats comprises a class of polysaccharides known as beta-D-glucans.
There are copper peptide solutions that are used after surgery which have claims to accelerate hair growth. I have not seen that result. I do use them on occasion because these products have some value in reducing the redness of wounds in people who have strong tendencies to develop redness when scratched. This persistent redness is caused by histamine release at the neurovascular junction points under the skin, at the site of a scratch. To get the benefit of reducing this redness in those prone to it, the solutions must be used immediately after the surgery and then twice a day for about a week. The classic person who has this problem has very fair skin, often red or blonde hair or has a history of persistent redness after scratches. You can test yourself by scratching you arm with your fingernail. If you have such a tendency, the scratch will turn red within a minute.
To summarize your exact question, there is no reference to hair stimulating effects of ‘Oat-Beta Glucan’ following a hair transplant in what I was able to find. When I was in Vietnam, many locals believed that putting cow dung on the hair stimulated hair growth. It is was also used to treat fresh war wounds when modern medicine was not available for those wounded in the war. Both ‘Oat-Beta Glucan’ and cow dung have about the same value for hair growth as much as I can tell.
Your office is not that far from the famous Muscle Beach. Do you get many of the hardcore bodybuilders in for hair transplants? And taking all of those steroids…wouldn’t it be courter productive or should I say maybe a waste of time to get the hair transplant for those prone to baldness anyway or do they just take of more and different drugs of the estrogen blocking nature?
The reason I ask is that when I was in my younger days when I first really started loosing my hair( after two knee surgeries by the way???)I started weight lifting/bodybuilding to conpensate for my emotions concerning my hair loss, I had a rough time dealing with it. So I was tempted to take them (back when they were legal)but after reading about the hair loss side effects I changed my mind. Does the transplanted hair suffer from heavy steroid use or does it stay protected?
Thank you