Everyone experiences hair loss on a daily basis. Normal hair loss is barely noticeable, amounting to less than 100 hairs per day. However, the stress of a major surgery can cause hair loss to accelerate up to three times as much in both men and women. It’s the body’s way of reacting to the trauma of the operation. There are many reasons for badly hair loss, such as surgery, severe illness, car accidents and the flu. Hair has a programmed life cycle, which includes the growth phase, resting phase and shedding phase. An extremely stressful event, such as surgery, can affect the hair cycle and force more hair toward the shedding phase.
Around 90 percent of hairs are in a growth phase while 10 percent are in a resting phase at any given time, according to naturopathic doctor. This means that hair loss is typically not noticeable, as people lose less hair than the hair they grow. However, this can change due to telogen effluvium, which has both nutritional and non-nutritional causes. Hair loss usually becomes evident three to six months after a physical trauma. In cases where hair loss occurs due to a non-nutritional cause, hair follicles are not damaged and hair should regrow after six months. Most doctors assure their surgery patients that hair grows back following surgery, particularly by maintaining good nutritional intake. Certain nutritional deficiencies tend to worsen telogen effluvium. If hair loss continues for more than one year after surgery or starts more than six months after surgery, a nutritional deficiency is likely a contributor to the post-surgery hair loss.
The most important thing to prevent hair loss after surgery is that you should be physically and mentally prepared for the procedure, to achieve this, you must have proper communication with your surgeon and preferably have a clear idea of what constitutes surgery and the post-operative diet following gastric sleeve procedure. If the patient is aware of the type and quality of nutrition to be carried out after the procedure, the chances of losing a considerable amount of hair are very low, at least in the case of the gastric sleeve. The patient must receive adequate guidance as to which high protein foods can and should eat and which supplements will help prevent hair loss.
Although emotional stress reduction is always easier said than done, it is a recommendation that is theoretically simple to comply with and is entirely up to the patient so, how to achieve this? there are several ways and depend heavily on each person, but activities such as hobbies, hiking outdoors, sharing time with loved ones, sports, etc. can contribute to stress reduction.
As you can see when it comes to surgery, it is possible to prevent or at least minimize considerably the chances of hair loss. There will be specific cases in which the loss can’t be avoided a 100% but if you follow the simple recommendations provided here and by your group, the period of loss will be much shorter and the recovery will be much faster.