TonyStark83

Well for now I've never entered into the water and I'm always using a cap whenever I'm not under shadows. Only after 20h (20:00PM) I take my cap out. I'm not risking anything at all. Obviously I'm exaggerating and being a bit paranoid... well...

Yeah. I'm just scared that water isn't enough to protect my scalp even underwater.

Trust me: I'm one of those "paranoic freaks" concerning post-FUE. I always play safe. But since it's Summer vacations I wanted to have a bit fun. And the reports about the cautions we should have in the beach seem to vary from doctor to doctor. My doctor said that there's no problem at all going to the water but I should wet by hair time from time; he said that the only two concerns I should have is: - always using cap in the beach and when I'm not in the water - avoiding to use ir hit the head while playing sports such as football/soccer But I always loved to hear/read second opinions.

To be honest I think I never suffered a sunburn in my scalp.

So it's worse to get into the water than staying out of the water?! I'm not gonna get a swim cap, I don't trust them. It presses our hair a lot. Now I'm scared to go to swim and ruin my FUE procedure...

Thank you! And how about when I'm gonna swim? I can't use a cap in the water. If I keep putting my hair wet is it enough to protect my scalp from the sunlight? Do I need to dive my head every 5 minutes or so?

Thank you all for your responses! Well I was always very concerned about this because one of the things I ate most in this world is... smoking. I HATE IT! I never smoked and I always try to avoid second hand smoking. So it seems it causes zero effect to my hair. That makes me happy!

I've made my FUE almost 3.5 months ago. Tomorrow I'm gonna go to Summer vacations on the beach. Can I do everything? Swimming, exposure to sunlight, play football and use my head, sand on my head, etc? Thanks.

More opinions, please.

In my country, Portugal, it's not allowed to smoke in closed and public places. So I really don't understand why Casinos seem to still be an exception.

Hahahahahahahaha! I like your sense of humor.

I'm gonna enter into vacations in some days and it's gonna be almost 3.5 months after my FUE procedure. In that place I'm going to go there's a Casino and generally there's a lot of second smoking there. So does it can destroy the FUE results? Can it ruin/damage the hair follicles? I hate smoke and cigarettes, I've never smoke in my entire life and I generally avoid passive smoking. So how it's gonna be? Should I not worry about it? Should I avoid the casino at all costs? Should I go there just during some minutes per once? Thanks!

That's very interesting. So probably most people always get skin burned yet in most cases it's barely noticeable and not harm is done. I think I'll ask to my doctor about the SPF products for our scalp. I didn't know they existed.

I've done 4 sessions before these 2 sessions. However, previous ones were during September and October. So I didn't need to worry that much about exposure to sunlight. This is the first time I do during April. After my second procedure (after the 3rd and the 4th sessions), more than 6 months further (during April), I forgot to use my hat and I was a bit afraid of my scalp getting red. One of my cousins said it was a bit reddish therefore I went to my car and used the cap for the rest of the day. But when I arrived at home, at night, the scalp was just fine and when I went to my doctor he said nothing wrong happened. I guess my cousin confused it a bit because many people during that day were a bit red in the skin and I had the usual red dots (grafts with hair growing). I'm just always a bit confused what's the limit: we can be exposed to sunlight during how much time? And can anyone confirm if there's solar protectors to our scalp? Don't they arm our hair?

So there's sprays we use to our hair to protect it against the sunlight? I didn't know that... Aerosol cans you say? Doesn't that damages our transplanted hair?