Day 5

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Summary

• What to expect
  • Swelling will begin to resolve around now and usually be gone around Day 8-10
  • Itching will start to annoy you. Itching is the most cumbersome part about your recovery. It is normal for itching to last a few weeks but can take a few months.
  • Scabs and hair will begin to fall out. Seeing hair fall our seems scary, but it’s normal. After a hair replacement, the shafts of most transplanted hairs will fall out, but the follicles are seated within your scalp.

• What you need to do
  • Continue everything else from previous, except the following:.
  • Finish your antibiotics +/- steroid as prescribed.
  • Stop using bacitracin/neosporin/polysporin

• What you start doing
  • Sleep in a normal position
  • Moderate exercise (sweating is fine, no straining)
  • Wear a cap. No part of the cap should touch your newly grafted hairs. It is fine for the cap to touch the hair collection area.
  • Go in the sun with a cap

• What not to do
  • Do not itch your hairs or scabs regardless of how bad the itching is.

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