Hi,

It has been 1 week since my HT. My healing is going really well. I have a weird and very specific question.

I have washed my hair every day after day 2 with baby shampoo while using a water pitcher in the shower. I hardly have any scars where the grafts have been placed. I do have some small white balls that look and feel like a small piece of white fat or grease. I see a few of them when I comb my hair. They are primarily in the crown area. As if when you scrape off a small dry pimple from your skin. I don't they they are the grafts. It's not dandruff or flakes of skin from my head either. Hair is not attached to them. You can see some of them if you look carefully in my blog in the last posts.

Has anyone experienced this? What could it be?
Thx

Mario

I posted the pictures on my blog and you can't see the white dots on these pictures due to the resolution. I will try to posted them on another blog or something.

Gator...

I'm six months post-op with Epstein.

I kind've remember what you're talking about.
The little white looking crusts were more noticable after I got out of the shower...they kind of went away during the day.

It's something I kind of remember but wasn't a big deal.

If you heal the way I did with Epstein...you'll be just fine.


MH

Gator,

The white balls you are referring to are most likely remaining scabs that have whitened or dry skin. This is all normal.

Give your recipient area a good few weeks to a month before it looks completely normal. Postoperative redness however, can extend over several months depending on the patient.

Best wishes,

Falc

Thanks for the replies guys. Everything has been going great except for the white balls. I switched to a Burts Bees shampoo today instead of the baby shampoo in case that helps. I may just stick with the baby stuff for another week or so if the white balls are normal.
Regards
Mario