Do all children lose their hair when having chemotherapy?!
Question: What does it mean when a child doesn't lose his hair? Is it because the chemotherapy is not working properly on him? Or is it because it is low dose?
Answers: What does it mean when a child doesn't lose his hair? Is it because the chemotherapy is not working properly on him? Or is it because it is low dose?
When my daughter started chemotherapy at age 8, I was told she would lose her hair right around day 14 of chemo. Sure enough, on day fourteen I woke up in her hospital room and looked at her, and there was hair all over the pillow. We were told it would fall out completely within the next few days and I had a hair stylist come in and cut it very short at my daughter's request. Well, it got very, very thin, but it didn't completely fall out. I worried about the same thing- maybe the chemo wasn't strong enough.
Without giving details to needlessly scare you, we found out through some particularly bad reactions as well as 98 days of profound neutropenia (she broke a record on that one...) that the chemo was, in fact, quite strong enough, there is just a variation of chemotherapy related hair loss. Some people never lost it all. For my daughter, about three months into it (around her fifth course of chemo) she lost it ALL- lashes, brows, everything.. yet that wasn't the 'strongest' round of chemo (although she was on very aggressive treatment, some of them new and nearly untried, because the particular leukemia she had 'doesn't happen' in children).
Try not to let the hair loss (or lack of it) worry you- that is no reflection of the chemotherapy's effectiveness.
Take care of yourself as well; it's quite a nightmare to find yourself in as a parent. Best wishes to your son.
Some chemo drugs do not cause hair loss. Also not all patients lose their hair. I was on a drug that was suppose to cause 100% hair loss. I only lost about 75% of my hair.
It is supposed to, maybe it's too early. Chemotherapy causes rapid cell production causing the hair to basically grow out of the follicle and out of the scalp...or it could be a low dose.
no. first of all, hair loss during chemotherapy is normal but there are some cases that hair loss does not happen.
my mom has a friend who underwent chemo but did not experience hair loss. what she did months before her chemo was to mix different veggies in a blender and drink them everyday like juice. she did it thrice a day no matter how awful the taste was. she got surprised when after the chemo she did not lose a single strand of hair! really.
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I didnt loose my hair on time when taking Taxol. Was a little later than usual patients.
The dose and medication determines the hair loss.
Well in most of the cases they do, you should better ask the doctors or you may check out this blog for more info
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Not all drug agents used in chemotherapy cause hair loss, so if your son is getting a lower dosage and/or certain drugs that could be why he isn't loosing his hair. It doesn't neccesarily mean that tat the chemotherapy is not working; his doctors would need to determine that based upon imaging scans of his tumor or blood tests if he has a blood cancer.
Hair lose is normal to those who are having c-therapy...The reason is normal cells are damaged...And also the cells that hold the hair are damaged so there is hair lose.....