Why does the hair shed during chemotherapy?
Whilst on chemotherapy treatment, the hair is put into its resting phase known as Telogen. Everyone, at whatever age, who has hair, undergoes this Telogen phase every day with most people losing 50-150 hairs but, due to the medication within the treatment, the hair follicles stay in this resting phase and remain dormant until the time that the course of treatment has been completed. Once you have completed your course of treatment you usually start to see fine white vellous hairs which can resemble soft baby like down approximately within 4-6 weeks of the completion.
When the course of treatment is completed, the hair will start to grow back. It is at this point that the hair is fine (vellous) and normally white in colour but very soon, maybe within 4-6 weeks, it returns to its natural shade and texture (terminal) and some patients have reported that their hair is in better condition than before their treatment started.
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