im on my 3rd week post HT. doctors at the clinic idid my hair transplant gave me their own shampoo. it is running out however. and i have to ask you what shampoo shall i start using. i checked some from the nanogen.co.uk website uk based, such as the onescalp shampoo but im not sure.
any ideas
Thanks

My belief is that it doesn't make any difference what shampoo you use. All shampoos are simply soaps. Consumer Reports has done two extensive analyses of shampoos over the past ten years and published them, and their conclusion was exactly what I stated above. At our clinic we give out a "courtesy" gift tube of Nexus' Therape shampoo to each patient, but not because we believe it superior to all others, but simply as a gift. It has a slight nostalgic value to me also, since that is what the clinic gave out back in 1982 after each of my first three transplant sessions and I loved the way it smelled (have since lost most of my sense of smell and don't enjoy that aspect of using it).
There are some shampoos that have added ingredients to help with seborrhea (dandruff) and these might be of extra benefit to patients who suffer from that. Also, the Grafcyte kit, which many of our patients opt to purchase, includes a container of their shampoo with the copper peptide in it. I have seen some great results one week later with patients who used the Graftcyte kit, but whether or not the shampoo portion of the kit had anything to do with the quick disappearance of the redness and scabbing I have no idea. I am pretty sure that the frequent spraying is what helps the most.
Lastly, there are some shampoos that are labelled as "volumizers." They add a little bit of a protein coat to the hair shaft to make it seem fuller. Being a person with fine hair, I have used these from time to time and have noted a slight benefit along the lines of what they promise.
But the bottom line is that most of what hits you in print and over the air waves is all advertizing hype, created by people in rooms writing advertizing "come-on's". The other piece of advice that Consumer Reports gave was to try a bunch of different shampoos and if one of them makes your hair feel better or look more natural for some reason, by all means go ahead and use it. The choice will be very different for different people though.
Mike Beehner, M.D.