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Cold caps
does anyone know how I can get a hold of a cold cap for my 27 year old daughter who is starting chemo soon?
Hi AndreaH.
It depends on where you are as not all hospitals offer them, you might have to travel. You can hire them from Penguin cold caps but that looks like a hard slog, lots of dry ice and some fuddy duddy hospitals are not keen on you lugging an Esky in! They are horrendously expensive to the tune of around $700 a month. But when I thought there was no other local option I was going to do it. Luckily I had a new hospital open close to home that some generous soul had raised money for and donated a Paxman scalp cooling machine. Absolutely well worth the search.
I had my second last treatment today. (pic below) After 4 rounds of AC and 11 rounds of Taxol I still have long blonde hair (it has thinned) but nobody but me can tell. I also live on a farm so have probably been a whole lot harder on my hair than what they recommend. Through 40 degree Qld heat I had an Akubra jammed on my head and washed from the mid length down every day and sometimes twice depending on the amount of sweat LOL. I figured it wasn't going to fall out from the ends so why not. Don't know whether the cap had anything to do with it but I never lost my eyebrows or eyelashes either. Everything else went so maybe it helped with that as well. All the best.
It depends on where you are as not all hospitals offer them, you might have to travel. You can hire them from Penguin cold caps but that looks like a hard slog, lots of dry ice and some fuddy duddy hospitals are not keen on you lugging an Esky in! They are horrendously expensive to the tune of around $700 a month. But when I thought there was no other local option I was going to do it. Luckily I had a new hospital open close to home that some generous soul had raised money for and donated a Paxman scalp cooling machine. Absolutely well worth the search.
I had my second last treatment today. (pic below) After 4 rounds of AC and 11 rounds of Taxol I still have long blonde hair (it has thinned) but nobody but me can tell. I also live on a farm so have probably been a whole lot harder on my hair than what they recommend. Through 40 degree Qld heat I had an Akubra jammed on my head and washed from the mid length down every day and sometimes twice depending on the amount of sweat LOL. I figured it wasn't going to fall out from the ends so why not. Don't know whether the cap had anything to do with it but I never lost my eyebrows or eyelashes either. Everything else went so maybe it helped with that as well. All the best.