Hair Today, Not Gone Tomorrow.

An older gentleman of my acquaintance hates his bald pate. In a job role where he meets new people every day, his claim that lack of hair lowers his self confidence may be a valid one.

Anyway, in an effort to rid himself of this feeling, he started off with a toupee, a hair patch designed to cover the bald spot, of course as age progresses the toupee becomes a wig and the bald spot becomes a bald head.

This new development lead to a new treatment, stem cells to re-grow hair, picking samples from the back of the head, making cultures in a Petri dish and then transplanting the same in one’s head.

Seems OK in theory but, I saw the process first hand. From invasive hair plucking and even more invasive hair transplant, bandages, medicines, wooziness, and many many head punctures, which need to be treated as small wounds. The road to hair re-growth is fraught with perils of all kinds; at least this method seems to be.

And the costs involved even though may seem like a by-line here, are pretty high with very little guarantee of the procedure actually working and not to mention the number of sittings and time taken to complete this procedure.

There are simpler, less invasive, cheaper and pain free options available out there that one might use.

Alternative medicine, such as Ayurveda, Unani and Homeopathy claim to have everything from, oils to control hair loss to treatments which make your hair re-grow.

All I’m saying try something that’s easier to commit to, and don’t journey down the path of feckless experimentation; it’s your head after all.