How Does Chemo Change your Hair Texture and Hair Color?
- themoreyouknowciar
- Dec 15, 2020
- 1 min read
Updated: Dec 21, 2020
The answer is YES! But how does this happen?
Patient Care Consultant Live says that,
Our hair follicles have growing and stagnation phases. During the growing stage, hair is rapidly being produced. During the stagnation stage hair sits until it is later shed. Over 90% of all of your hair follicles are actively producing hair at any point in time.
Once someone starts Chemotherapy, they can lose all of their hair at one time because all of the hair follicles are affected by the chemo drugs and are put into their stagnation stage, and later falls out.
About 6 months after Chemotherapy, the hair starts to grow back, but because the hair follicles are damaged sometimes different genetic characteristics in your DNA start showing up. You if dark hair runs in your family, you might start seeing patches of dark hair as your hair grows back. The melanocytes are even weaker than the hair follicles. They are responsible for the pigment in your hair, and because they aren't as good at recovering they tend to change the color of your hair as well.
And it's the same for "chemo curls", or the texture of your hair. As your hair is recovering it can go through different stages of "recovery" and may result in your hair showing different phenotypic features, before you get back to your original hair color and texture as it grows back.
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