Posted 5/31/2013 by hhill
There is no need to go into the usual diatribe about hair loss. We all know how horrible and distressing and stressful it is....and that we somehow settle into baldness and cope. Twenty or twenty five years ago there was a brief period when an ice cap was popular and recommended as a way to reduce hair loss. The idea was that a woman wore it (looked kind of like a big shower cap, filled with ice) during a chemo infusion. In theory, the cold constrcited the blood vessels in the scalp, reducing the flow of blood to that area, and thereby reduced the damage and subsequent hair loss. There were a few problems: it gave people horrible headaches, there was some concern about the wisdom of the theory, and it didn't work.
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