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What to Do and Expect After Hair Transplantation Operation?

These follow-up details about the aftercare of your hair transplant operation will help you to recover properly.

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Daily Activities

  • Back to work : Patients that have a hair transplantation operation can start working in 5 days. However, people that have heavy-duty jobs must wait for 15 days after the hair transplantation operation.
  • Do not wear a hat or helmet : Since newly grafted hair follicles can be damaged by a hat or helmet, you are not supposed to wear any of these. Wearing a hat causes sweating and damages hair grafts, so your hair will fall.
  • Do not bend : For the best operation result, you should not bend because bending causes blood to move your head, which leads to bleeding. When your grafts bleed, your newly grafted hair follicles might pop out after Sapphire FUE and DHI Hair Transplantation Operation in Antalya Medworld Hair Clinic, Turkey.
  • While coughing or sneezing, be careful : It is unlikely to damage newly grafted hair follicles while coughing after a few days. Nevertheless, it is good for you to be careful soon after the surgery.
  • Try not to sweat : The first month of the surgery is really important. Hence, you should avoid sweating because it damages hair implants. If the city is hot, you should stay inside for 3 or 4 weeks.
  • Do not swim : Because the grafts are not totally settled, they may be infected. Thus, you should not swim in the first two weeks. This period will be enough for them to heal. After two weeks, they will be adapted under your scalp, so it is safe to swim after Sapphire FUE and DHI Hair Transplantation Operation in Antalya Medworld Hair Clinic, Turkey.
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  • Do not smoke : Smoking negatively affects the recovery process because it induces blood vessels narrowing, and blood flow slows down. As a result, your newly grafted hair follicles do not adapt properly.
  • Do not scratch your grafted hair : Your doctor will teach you how to rub the hair implanted area when it is itchy. Scratching damages the operation area.
  • Do not drink alcoholic drinks : Two weeks before your hair transplantation operation, you should stop drinking alcohol because your body needs to process the alcohol in your system. Your blood pressure should be normal to have a surgery.
  • You should avoid exposure to direct sunlight : Direct exposure to sunlight damages the area that has been grafted. For this reason, you should avoid sunlight for 2 months after Sapphire FUE and DHI Hair Transplantation Operation in Antalya Medworld Hair Clinic, Turkey.
  • Avoid sexual intercourse : Sexual acts may cause you to sweat, and sweating is not good for the newly grafted hair in your scalp.
  • Do not touch the area that is grafted : When you touch it, you may scratch. As a result, your new hair follicles will come off.
  • Do not use solarium or sauna : For a month, these kinds of places will damage your hair implants as they cause sweating like doing sports.
  • Do not do sports or heavy exercises : You can do light exercises like yoga and meditation. However, any heavy sports or doing hard exercises also make you sweat. At least 2 weeks, you must be careful about sweating for your own good.
  • Use hygienic pillow-slips and sheets : Not to be infected, be careful about your detergents, not to be allergic!
  • Sleep your face up : Place a pillow under your neck and lie your face up at 45 degrees for 2 weeks. You need to protect your graft well. Sleeping is essential to recover after the Sapphire FUE and DHI Hair Transplantation Operation in Antalya Medworld Hair Clinic, Turkey.

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How to Wash?

  • Do not scrub your hair and use your hands gently : You can use soft towels and a hair dryer. However, be sure that the hair dryer is in cool mode.
  • Follow your doctor’s instructions : After 3 days, you can wash your head without scrubbing with the medical shampoo, as your doctor has taught you. You must use this specially formulated shampoo that we provide after the hair transplantation operation. Do not use any chemical products, sprays, or gels. In 2 weeks time, you may rub your head with shampoo and your fingertips softly.
  • Comb or brush gently : You are not supposed to comb or brush your hair in the first two weeks. Even after 2 weeks, you should not comb your hair implants. You can just start combing your natural hair without scratching your hair implants.
  • Do not forget to adjust water temperature : While washing, even the water pressure can harm your hair implants. For this reason, you must wash your head at low temperature and pressure after the Sapphire FUE and DHI Hair Transplantation Operation in Antalya Medworld Hair Clinic, Turkey.
  • Massage Gently : To provide blood circulation, you can massage gently after 2 weeks without scratching.
  • Apply your medical lotion : You are provided with a medical lotion after your hair transplant operation. You should apply this lotion on the donor part for 14 days. After 14 days, your scabs will be healed, so you can apply this lotion there as well.
  • Self care Use of medication: We provide you with aftercare medication like painkillers, antibiotics, drugs for allergy and itching, shampoo and lotion. Use them regularly as you are told.
  • Do not worry about swelling : After surgical operation swelling is normal, and it is a part of the recovery period, so do not worry if your forehead, eyes, or face swells in the first week. However, you can apply ice around the swollen area, not on it or hair implants immediately after the Sapphire FUE and DHI Hair Transplantation Operation in Antalya Medworld Hair Clinic, Turkey.
  • Do not bump your head : Bumping may harm your scabs and scalp.
  • No hairdressers: You should take care of your hair more than ever.  If you manage to wait for a month, your scalp will heal completely and hair implants will orient well.
  • Keep your donor area moist: Since there are scabs on the donor area, it might be itchy. However, scratching may make it worse. For this reason, you should just apply lotion. After 4 or 5 days, you will feel better.
  • Do not use a razor for 4 months: Hair cut with scissors is not harmful for your scabs after a month of the Sapphire FUE and DHI Hair Transplantation Operation in Antalya Medworld Hair Clinic, Turkey. On the other hand, an electric razor should not be used for 4 months.
  • Do not dye your hair : This is one of the most common questions that needs to be answered. Since it takes time for new hair to grow healthy, you need to wait maybe for a year because new hair follicles are very vulnerable, and it takes time to be strong. Harsh hair dye chemicals will absolutely damage and cause them to fall.
  • Burning Sensation on the recipient and donor area: You might feel burning on the recipient and donor area immediately after your hair transplantation operation. However, this will fade away in a few days.
  • Numbness on your scalp: Since your donor area is anesthetized before picking up natural hair follicular units from there, you might feel numbness. Also, you might feel numbness on the recipient area because it is anesthetized while grafting new hair follicles there during the Sapphire FUE and DHI Hair Transplantation Operation in Antalya Medworld Hair Clinic, Turkey. Depending on the sensory nerve’s regeneration, from patient to patient, it might take 1 to 5 weeks to return to full sensation.
  • Eat Healthily: Having a healthy diet and taking the necessary nutrients help cell regeneration, so it helps your new hair follicles grow strongly after your hair implant operation.
  • Do not scratch your grafted hair: Your hair implant roots might be itchy and red because of scabs. Itchiness of scabs is a part of the healing process. They usually heal in a week.
  • Phases of Hair Growth: This is the part that you will enjoy most while reading
  • Hair loss: Actually, it is called shock hair loss. Shock hair loss is very normal after every hair transplantation operation. Grafted hair implants start falling by leaving their hair follicles in your scalp, which stimulates new, strong hair growth. For this reason, it is a common outcome and you should know this.
  • The best result of hair transplantation: The best result of the Sapphire FUE and DHI Hair Transplantation Operation in Antalya Medworld Hair Clinic, Turkey is that the appearance of new hair is very natural.
  • Permanent hair growth: In 4 months time, you will see that your new hair is growing, even if it is thin. Nevertheless, it is going to become thicker and denser with your self-care and aftercare.
  • High hair density phase: You will start realizing that your new hair has been thicker in 6 months, but you will get the final result after a year.