Regular Member el Posted June 26, 2004 Regular Member Share Posted June 26, 2004 I was always wondering why HT can not be done using other persons donor hair? It is done with internal organs and why it is not possible with hair? El Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member el Posted June 26, 2004 Author Regular Member Share Posted June 26, 2004 I was always wondering why HT can not be done using other persons donor hair? It is done with internal organs and why it is not possible with hair? El Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Member Smoothy Posted June 26, 2004 Senior Member Share Posted June 26, 2004 THe reason is that your body rejects foreign objects that are not genenically coded with one's self. Anti rejection drugs cost hundreds of dollars a month-sometime pushing 1K a month depending on the transplant and number of drugs needs. A person wouldnt have a problem being on these drugs which have HUGE side effects the rest of his/her life if it was to save your life-like heart,liver, kidney, ect. However, for Hair???? Come on!! On the positive side, some recent research has been done on foreign donor hair and limited rejection has been documented. THat is the good news, the bad is that it was only a few FU and it was transplaned in a person's arm not his head. THere is thought the hair shafts might not have the anti rejection genenic coding but more research in needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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