Tomato on Scalp Sunburn

First let me congratulate you on an excellent website. It really inspires confidence. I get a buzz out reading the stories of people you have helped. If there is such a thing as Karma, then you’ll probably reincarnate with a full head of hair for the next thousand lifetimes! Ha ha.

Ok, serious now. I’m 36 and a class 4 or 5 balding. I am reasonably happy, however one day I got sun burnt on top. My girlfriend absolutely insisted on cutting up a tomato and placing it on my burnt balding head for relief, which I recall putting up with for about 15 mins. I swear that ever since that day, my hair has felt considerably thinner and has never felt the same since. My sun burn wasn’t THAT bad and I blame the tomato somehow. Can you offer some kind of perspective on this one? I’m curious to know if your surgery advocates using natural products like Olive or Peanut oil for scalp healing.

I do not know about tomato treatments, nor do I have any experience with olive or peanut oils on the scalp. People with miniaturized hair will burn easier, because the hair, which normally protects against sunburn, becomes less effective as it becomes thinner. It is not unusual that one of the first signs of recognizing genetic balding is the ‘sunburn’. As the hair provides less coverage, the sun does more and more damage and people with considerable miniaturization will have a higher incidence of skin cancers. Many patients seek out a hair transplant to reduce the sun and ultraviolet effects which produce skin damage. As you seem to be a regular reader of this blog, you probably already know this, but you should have your scalp mapped out for miniaturization to determine if you have genetic type balding.