Balding Blog
12-22-2008, 01:35 PM
From the article:
A Chinese man who received a face transplant in 2006 has died, highlighting the risks of a recent groundbreaking US operation.
Li Guoxing, 32, died at his rural home in rugged southwestern China after forsaking immune-system drugs in favour of herbal medicine, his surgeon Guo Shuzhong said.
“His death was not caused by the surgery. Our operation was a success. But we cannot rule out a connection with the immune system drugs,” said Dr Guo, a surgeon with Xijing Hospital in the northern city of Xian who operated on Li in April 2006.
Read the full text — Chinese face transplant Li Guoxing dies (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24829166-23109,00.html)
Granted, this is not about hair loss or hair transplantation, but it highlights that many of these herbal remedies are not replacements for proven medications. I found it interesting and definitely worth a read! Treatments to control the rejection process is a science that requires careful monitoring. Switching to herbals either as an adjunct or a replacement for drugs that prevent rejection of transplanted organs, can not produce a good outcome.
I’m not suggesting that using herbal treatments to prevent hair loss or regrow hair will lead to death — far from it. You will eventually lose the hair you’re so desperately trying to keep if you make the switch from a known and proven drug like finasteride to a fancy shampoo or lotion you can buy at your local salon/grocery store/online store, though.
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A Chinese man who received a face transplant in 2006 has died, highlighting the risks of a recent groundbreaking US operation.
Li Guoxing, 32, died at his rural home in rugged southwestern China after forsaking immune-system drugs in favour of herbal medicine, his surgeon Guo Shuzhong said.
“His death was not caused by the surgery. Our operation was a success. But we cannot rule out a connection with the immune system drugs,” said Dr Guo, a surgeon with Xijing Hospital in the northern city of Xian who operated on Li in April 2006.
Read the full text — Chinese face transplant Li Guoxing dies (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24829166-23109,00.html)
Granted, this is not about hair loss or hair transplantation, but it highlights that many of these herbal remedies are not replacements for proven medications. I found it interesting and definitely worth a read! Treatments to control the rejection process is a science that requires careful monitoring. Switching to herbals either as an adjunct or a replacement for drugs that prevent rejection of transplanted organs, can not produce a good outcome.
I’m not suggesting that using herbal treatments to prevent hair loss or regrow hair will lead to death — far from it. You will eventually lose the hair you’re so desperately trying to keep if you make the switch from a known and proven drug like finasteride to a fancy shampoo or lotion you can buy at your local salon/grocery store/online store, though.
Tags: transplant (http://technorati.com/tag/transplant), drugs (http://technorati.com/tag/drugs), medication (http://technorati.com/tag/medication), herbal (http://technorati.com/tag/herbal), death (http://technorati.com/tag/death), news (http://technorati.com/tag/news)
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