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Cold Capping and hair loss experience with TC chemo
I went for my first TC chemo session with cold capping on a Paxman. I've got wavy coarse hair, that's not particularly thick. Conditioner and water was applied with a focus on the top of the head. I w...
Update: As I thought, I left the cool capping session with no chance of any hair retention. It’s all gone.
Lesson learnt should I one day need to go through this again: always confirm my nurse will be wetting my entire head and cover it all with conditioner to maximise the chance of successful cool capping. All the nurses I’ve come across are lovely and caring, but the odd one may not be well trained on cool capping prep.
Lesson learnt should I one day need to go through this again: always confirm my nurse will be wetting my entire head and cover it all with conditioner to maximise the chance of successful cool capping. All the nurses I’ve come across are lovely and caring, but the odd one may not be well trained on cool capping prep.