PRP to Treat Bald Patches
As there is a growing concern for baldness or hair loss, hair loss treatment innovations and the steady search for a baldness cure have never ceased as well. Hair restoration specialists and scientists have expanded their search for a hair loss cure from high-tech state-of-the-art devices to simple backyard herbs to animal extracts. Baldness could now be halted or even reversed, thanks to a platelet-rich plasma (PRP) shot taken from the patient’s own blood.
The PRP injection contains Acell, a powder extracted from pigs’ bladders. The clinical studies for this baldness cure involved a trial of the injections on a group of men in Britain.
Raghu Reddy, a Harley Street clinician at the Private Clinic, will perform the treatment with the help of Gary Hitzig, who developed it in the United States, the Daily Mail reports.
Reddy said, ‘It is as close as we have come to a cure for male baldness. This revolutionary injectable combination of ACell and platelet-rich plasma (PRP) may be the answer to restoring hair growth for those in the early to moderate stages of hair loss’.
‘Similar to how a flu shot can prevent one from catching the flu, ACell and PRP injections can help prevent further hair loss and help restore one’s hair’, he added.
The treatment involves the formation of a protective barrier which safeguards the remaining healthy hair-growing cells. It then goes on to duplicate the surrounding tissue, allowing healthy hair-growing cells to return. Male pattern baldness, suffered by comedian Harry Hill and British foreign secretary William Hague, is suffered by half of men over 50. Also, statistics show that 2 out of 5 men over the age of 25 experience male pattern baldness.
Hair loss in men is caused by a mixture of genetics and hormones and while there are a number of treatments available, there still is no cure. Hopefully the newly-studied cure will be most successful.
The PRP injection contains Acell, a powder extracted from pigs’ bladders. The clinical studies for this baldness cure involved a trial of the injections on a group of men in Britain.
Raghu Reddy, a Harley Street clinician at the Private Clinic, will perform the treatment with the help of Gary Hitzig, who developed it in the United States, the Daily Mail reports.
Reddy said, ‘It is as close as we have come to a cure for male baldness. This revolutionary injectable combination of ACell and platelet-rich plasma (PRP) may be the answer to restoring hair growth for those in the early to moderate stages of hair loss’.
‘Similar to how a flu shot can prevent one from catching the flu, ACell and PRP injections can help prevent further hair loss and help restore one’s hair’, he added.
The treatment involves the formation of a protective barrier which safeguards the remaining healthy hair-growing cells. It then goes on to duplicate the surrounding tissue, allowing healthy hair-growing cells to return. Male pattern baldness, suffered by comedian Harry Hill and British foreign secretary William Hague, is suffered by half of men over 50. Also, statistics show that 2 out of 5 men over the age of 25 experience male pattern baldness.
Hair loss in men is caused by a mixture of genetics and hormones and while there are a number of treatments available, there still is no cure. Hopefully the newly-studied cure will be most successful.