Unique treatment could help women with hair loss

Maturing regularly brings on hair loss, and not simply in men. The issue with female hair loss is that treatment alternatives are increasingly restricted, however an old treatment for harmed joints is presently being touted as a solution for hair loss in both genders.

Around 15 years prior, Pam Moschilli’s thick head of hair started to thin.

“If you don’t feel good about yourself, you know, you try to fix it,” Moschilli said. “You get dressed up, you go out, you do your hair and it just never looked right.”

The greater part of ladies experience some level of hair loss by the age of 70, yet company, for this situation, is not really a wellspring of solace.

“It’s acceptable for a man to be bald. It’s kind of sexy now … you know? But for a woman, it’s not,”Moschilli said.

So about a year back, she searched out a treatment she’d heard about on a talk show. For decades, Platelet-rich plasma or PRP has been utilized to help heal orthopedic injuries, but using PRP to grow hair, it’s a field that’s in infancy, says Dr. Matthew LoPresti of Leonard Hair Loss Associates in Newton.

“We take the patient’s own blood and spin that down so that we have just the PRP plasma,” LoPresti said.

That plasma, which is wealthy in human growth factors, is then infused into the patient’s desensitized scalp.

“With those growth factors, the belief is that it’s targeting a constant stimulation of hair so it stays in the growth cycle,” he said.

Keeping the hair that remaining parts is the goal of PRP, however Pam Moschilli showed improvement over that.

“I’ve had a lot of growth in through the temple area and the back of the head,” Moschilli said.

PRP may particularly be an appreciated option for ladies with hair loss.

The drug finasteride regrows hair, however it’s connected to birth abandons. Women can utilize minoxidil however undesirable body hair can result.

Platelet-rich plasma treatment isn’t shabby and there aren’t reams of scientific data proving it works, but the idea in theory that it should work may be enough to pull patients in.

And for Pam Moschilli, it did work.

“Every time I go to the hairdressers, it’s, ‘How’s the back doing? Is the hair growing?’” she said.

At the moment, it is.