Picking My Scabs a Week After My Hair Transplant

hello. I think this is a very common question that you get asked but i would still go ahead ask this.

I’m 6 days post HT. I have scabs all over my head now and generally when i’m studying, I tend to pick them (i do not get aggressive with them). What In usually do is push them in a circular motion and see if they come off. If they dont then I leave them alone. I saw only one where it bled and had some soft white tissue attached to it. The others were just hard crusty scabs with small hair in them sometimes.

My question is that have I killed all my grafts now? To my understanding as long as they havent bled and no soft tissue came out then they are pretty secured. Also in 6 days they are pretty tightly held up in scalp….is that true? Please help

Our hair pull study (see Dislodging a Graft After Hair Transplant) shows that if you pull on a scab for up to 10 days after a transplant, you can pull out the grafts. What else can I say? What you are doing is just not good for you, and you’re running real risks here to losing what you must have paid dearly for. There are proper washing techniques that will have the scabbing off within the first few days and are safe on the grafts. Your doctor should’ve discussed these with you.