PRP and Exosome treatments for early stage hair loss
When you find that your hair strands are getting smaller and the dividing line is getting wider and wider, and every time you get up, there are always a lot of hair strands on your pillow, you will definitely feel something in your heart. Different questions: "Do I have hair loss problem? " "I am so young, I shouldn't have hair loss problem? " In fact, there are many causes of hair loss. Patients should first seek medical advice to determine whether it is male pattern baldness, stress or other problems that cause hair thinning. Under normal circumstances, if it is male pattern baldness, it can be treated with oral medication and topical medication. If the situation is suitable, it can be combined with PRP (platelet plasma) or exosome (Exosome) therapy to improve the treatment effect. It can delay shedding, promote the thickening of young hair, and improve the scalp environment. For the treatment of early hair loss, the effect is more obvious.
PRP treats hair loss
How can PRP effectively improve hair loss? PRP is targeted at patients with early-stage hair loss, hair thinning, or as auxiliary treatment after hair transplant surgery. This treatment is highly safe and has a low risk of sensitivity or rejection. It has been widely used to treat hair loss. The patient will first draw blood, and then use an instrument to separate plasma that is rich in nutrients and contains a large number of growth factors. The doctor will inject these growth factors into the scalp to improve blood circulation, nourish hair follicles, and treat scalp micro-inflammation, creating a "hair growth" effect, making the hair thicker, growing healthier, and improving the scalp environment.
PRP is injected with blood extracted from the body and is highly safe. However, it does not "radically cure" the hair loss problem, but "improves" the hair loss problem. The injection effects vary from person to person. Therefore, after the patient completes the course of treatment with about 3 to 5 injections, he or she needs to inject again regularly according to the doctor's instructions to maintain the effect. However, if the patient does not suffer from early stage hair loss and the hair follicles are completely atrophic and necrotic, they are not suitable for PRP treatment.
Exosome treats hair loss
PRP injects growth factor cells directly into the scalp. Although another course of treatment, Exosome therapy, is also treated by injecting into the scalp, what is injected in exosome therapy is not growth factor cells, but stronger nano-sized vesicles secreted from stem cells extracted from fat or umbilical cord. They contain important signals that command cell activities, such as proteins, mRNA, microRNA or lipid carriers.
After the patient is injected, these vesicles promote intercellular communication, activate key growth signals of hair follicles (such as the Wnt/β-catenin pathway), and issue more precise instructions, including: "start repair program", "accelerate growth", and "reduce inflammation", so that the regenerative potential in damaged or aging tissues (including the hair follicle environment) can be valued. Since exosome therapy does not inject living cells, it has a lower risk of immune rejection and a stronger regenerative capacity than PRP.
Exosome therapy uses cells and is proven to be rich in growth factors and cytokines, such as VEGF, IGF-1 and FGF-2. These factors and cytokines can promote angiogenesis, inhibit inflammation and stimulate dermal papilla cell proliferation, forming a hair follicle cycle to achieve hair regeneration.
However, patients must be aware that the quality of the stem cells used in exosome therapy varies. They are different from PRP therapy, which is taken directly from autologous blood. The type of stem cells used in exosome therapy, as well as differences in their concentration and purity, can bring about different effects and safety. There is also a gray area in supervision, because many places, including the United States and Hong Kong, are only "experimental" applications, are more expensive, and lack long-term clinical data. Therefore, if patients still do not see significant improvement after using traditional hair loss treatment and PRP therapy, they can consult a doctor to learn more about whether exosome therapy is suitable for them, and do not perform related treatments in a beauty salon indiscriminately.