Plasmolifting for hair. Reviews, pros and cons of plasma lifting

I'll start with why I decided on such a “procedure”. For almost two years now, I have been struggling (in the literal sense of the word) with hair loss. Some methods, devices, drugs helped (loss decreased), some did not. And the hair all left my head, slowly but surely. Bypassing all possible doctors, finding out some diagnoses, starting treatment (basically I got caught by a gastroenterologist).

But, while the treatment was underway (aggressive antibiotics and other drugs), I did not take anything for the hair, except for external agents (masks, serums), respectively, the hair began to fall out even more intensively, and then I decided to try plasma lifting.

What is plasmolifting for hair?

Plasmolifting is a method of stimulating tissue regeneration by local administration of an injectable form of platelet-rich autoplasma.

Plasmolifting - treatment and hair restoration by injection. The peculiarity of plasmolifting is that your own blood is taken for the procedure. Blood is taken from a vein, and then it is poured into a vacuum tube and placed in a centrifuge, where the blood is processed and purified, when the blood rapidly rotates around its axis, in a centrifuge, plasma rich in platelets is released from it. At the same time, the activity of platelets increases from 5 to 10 times, because it is platelets that accelerate and enhance all the processes that occur in our body. Then the plasma is drawn into a syringe and micro injections are made into the scalp.

Plasma injected into the patient's skin prevents the death of hair follicles and "switches" them from the phase of loss to the phase of growth. As a result of plasma exposure, microcirculation and cellular metabolism improve, the local immunity of the scalp increases, pathogenic flora is suppressed, and the hair follicles are actively nourished.

Indications for plasmolifting of the scalp

• Intense hair loss.
• Alopecia (diffuse, focal, telogenic and even androgenic).
• Depleted, brittle and split hair.
• Thinning hair.
• Dandruff (seborrhea), oily scalp.
• Damaged hair by coloring, chemistry, keratin straightening.

This method is considered safe from the point of view of infection with viruses, bacteria, because their own blood is taken for the procedure. But before doing such a procedure, you need to know the contraindications.

Contraindications for plasma lifting

• Oncological diseases.
• Diseases of the blood.
• Exacerbations of chronic diseases.
• Infectious diseases (ARVI, herpes).
• Autoimmune diseases.
• Allergy to anticoagulants (they are in a test tube where the patient's blood is transfused to prevent it from clotting).
• Pregnancy and lactation.
• Menstrual cycle.

Results of using plasmolifting for hair

• The process of dying off of hair follicles stops.
• Hair loss is reduced (effective in more than 70% of cases).
• Hair follicles are strengthened (hair begins to grow rapidly, somewhere after the second procedure)
• New hair growth is stimulated (new hair grows strong and healthy).
• Hair fragility and sections are reduced by improving the quality of the hair shaft itself (hair is lively and elastic).
• Hair density and diameter increase (hair density increases).
• The work of the sebaceous glands is normalized, dandruff is eliminated (literally after the first session).
• Hair is restored to its natural shine.
• Has a long-term effect (the result is enough for two years, and then, if necessary, can be repeated).

Plasmolifting: my review

At the reception, the trichologist, for a start, said to take a blood test, if it is within the norm, you can start a course of treatment.

Recommendations before the procedure:

- in two days, exclude from the diet all fatty, fried, smoked, chocolate, coffee, sweets, alcohol;

- drink at least two liters of water, eat more fruits and vegetables (in two days);

- on the day of the procedure, do not eat anything, you can only drink a glass of water. Therefore, it is better to do plasma lifting in the morning;

- wash your hair before the procedure.

And so, at the reception, you lie down on the couch, and the doctor takes about 10 ml of blood from the vein, which is enough for one procedure. You can take blood every time, or you can draw it several times at once and freeze it (I chose the first option, fresh every time). Then this blood is poured from a syringe into a special test tube and placed in a centrifuge, where the blood rotates at high speed without pressure and plasma saturated with platelets is released from it. And leukocytes and erythrocytes precipitate, thanks to the use of a special fixing gel (in time, this is about 15 minutes). This plasma contains vitamins, proteins, microelements, hormones and growth factors that increase cellular metabolism and skin immunity, which translates the hair from the hair loss phase to the growth phase. Then this plasma is drawn into a regular syringe, it turns out about 4.5-5 milliliters, then the doctor replaced the usual needle with a small one for micro-injections.

The procedure began by treating the scalp with an antiseptic. The trichologist dissuaded me from anesthesia, assuring me that it would not hurt, because the needles would change 4-5 times during the procedure, and local anesthetics in this case are ineffective.

First, lying on your back, the frontal part of the scalp is pierced (from the forehead towards the crown), to a depth of no more than a millimeter, everything happens too quickly, micro-injections are injected in small portions. Then you need to lie on your stomach and head on your side. The doctor changes the needle and begins to pierce the left side of the scalp, then again, changing the needle, injects in the right side, and at the end - the back of the head (changing the needle). Relatively speaking, the scalp is divided into four zones. The doctor changes a needle for each zone, so that pain is less felt. The entire injection process takes place from the periphery to the center of the scalp.

Having pierced all the zones, the doctor also made four injections into the crown, much deeper than the others, they are called "DEPO", that is, over time, after the procedure, nutrition for the scalp and hair diverges from them.

The trichologist said that the plasma begins to act immediately after it is injected. At the cellular level, metabolic processes are activated that enhance and restore cellular activity. The hair follicles are immediately supplied with all the nutrients from the plasma, which are necessary for the growth of healthy hair.

Now, about the pain itself, in the frontal zone, it is almost not felt, it hurt me when it was done at the temples and on the back of the head. But, the pain is bearable, even for me, although I am very, very afraid of injections and this was the main reason why I did not dare to plasmolifting for a long time (it was even difficult to imagine that more than 40 injections would be given to my head). After the third procedure, the pain became more noticeable, in almost all areas, but bearable. And yet, in the third session, the doctor added biotin-vitamin of group B to the plasma (you can add other vitamins and cocktails) so that it immediately goes directly to the hair roots. The trichologist explained it this way: even if we drink a bunch of different vitamins, this does not mean that they immediately go to the hair, the body sends them first to more important organs, and they go to the hair last. In one session, the doctor makes more than 60 injections.

After the first plasmolifting procedure, I had a break for almost a month, after the next two weeks.

My impressions. After the first procedure, in principle, I did not see anything, no improvements: the hair fell out and falls out, there are also no changes in the hair structure, the oily scalp is the same as it was (mine every other day).

After the second procedure, something special did not happen, except that the hair looked livelier, but it fell out and fell out (at times it even seemed to me that it was more than before the plasma lifting).

After the third procedure, I did a haircut and my master said that I have a huge amount of small hairs all over my head (the trichologist spoke about this in the third session), even on the back of my head. The master also noted that my hair shines like after lamination or even toning (this is on light brown hair), the color has become saturated. A week later, I myself began to notice these small hairs (even if they grew and did not fall out), but there were not many of them at all. And after washing my head in the drain in the bathroom there were less hairs, if before, I washed my head with shampoo, then I picked the hair from the drain (because the water did not drain anymore), then washed off the mask and cleaned the drain again, now I only do this after masks. Hair did not stop falling out, but it began to fall out less.

The fourth procedure has already passed. Everything is standard, like all the previous ones, but this time the pain was simply unbearable, the trichologist explained this by the fact that soon I have my period, so my skin is very sensitive. This time there were a lot of injections, more than 60, and she added a mixture of minerals (zinc, magnesium, calcium ...) to the plasma. In the first few days, it even seemed to me that the hair was falling out much less, but it was not there, a week after the plasmolifting, the hair fell even more, maybe it was connected with spring, seasonal hair loss, so I'm in frustrated feelings, plus I started inject B vitamins (10 injections). In general, there are a lot of small new hairs all over my head, but they will not save me the length (I have to cut it, 10 centimeters), the hair itself grows like "crazy", a little overgrown with bald patches, small hair. The hair looks alive, does not split as it used to be (I have dry curly hair), has a beautiful natural shine, but it still falls out, so I still cannot achieve the main goal of plasma lifting - to reduce hair loss.

Fifth procedure was appointed a month and a half later. The sensations after the fifth procedure are the same as after the previous ones. Hair looks alive, grows quickly, but still falls out.

Sixth procedure... The last procedure was scheduled a month later, only one plasma was injected without additives. More than two weeks have passed since the last procedure, hair loss has decreased slightly, but still has not returned to my usual rate (20-30 hairs).

In conclusion, I will say that plasmolifting is a rather interesting procedure for hair, which will help to put it in order, but as for hair loss, do not count on a 100% result, no matter what they tell you. I never found my reason for hair loss, although I visited four doctors (trichologist, gynecologist, gastroenterologist, neuropathologist), passed a bunch of tests and everything is normal and no one can understand why they fall out.

Throughout the entire time, I also drank vitamins (medobiotin, ascocin), totem (once every three days, and then once a week), pierced a course of B vitamins (in tablets I cannot absorb), iodomarin, as well as glycised (for months). I didn’t drink everything at once, the doctor wrote the whole course of admission into groups. And also took a massage course.

After the procedure, the doctor gave instructions on what to avoid after plasma lifting:

1. Do not wash your hair for a day, but rather two.
2. Avoid sun exposure.
3. For three days, do not visit the sauna, bathhouse and pool.
4. Do not massage the scalp for several days.
5. For 5 days, do not make masks for the scalp with irritating components (tincture of paprika, mustard ...).
6. On the day of the procedure, try not to comb or touch your hair once again.

The number of plasma lifting procedures is determined individually, depending on the condition of the hair. On average, it is recommended to do 2 to 6 procedures, with an interval of 10 days to a month.

Plasmolifting is widely used in skin care (skin rejuvenation, skin aging prevention, acne and post-acne treatment, hyperpigmentation and cellulite treatment).