Vincentea

3 months on and everything seems to be going well quite well. went to the hairdresser the other day he was very vigorous with shampooing and combing of my head. Im a little concerned i ay damaged alot of the good work. Or am i safe now ?

My father struggled to remove Dr Devroyes stitches...now maybe he has no idea.. but do i have to see a specialist ? I live in London, any ideas anyone ? Any advice would be much appreciated

Thanks for your reply and putting my mind at rest. I went to see dr.devroye and his team, they seemed excellent. Yeah they gave me another large bottle and recommended not to drown myself in the saline anymore. I probably wouldn't have had used tap water but I found another doctor online who has post op instructions stating to switch to tap water if saline runs out. It's my second day post op anything else I should be aware of ?

Hi everyone,

I recently had a fut, infact only a couple days ago. Surgery seemed to go fine. I was given a saline solution spray to mist over the recipient area. I did this post op when I got home every 15 mins or so I'd mist my scalp. Eventually I ran out of the spray and I thought it was imperative to keep misting so I added tap water to the bottle instead. ( I read on one transplantologists as an advisable post-op instruction). However when I told my doc the next day he wasn't too impressed but he said hopefully the grafts will be fine but grafts survive in saline not water ! does any have any comments about this have I just been through a crazy procedure and destroyed all their hard work and my time and money...any comments would be much appreciated !