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Could the use of prp ,for hair loss and for many years,provoke long term effects on nervous system?

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Dr. Stuart Winkler answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine - Nephrology & Dialysis

PRP: PRP therapy uses your own platelet rich plasma for local application to your scalp. I could find no report of neurological complications with this therapy. There is nothing in this preparation that should be neurotoxic

Answered 11/10/2014

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Dr. Daniel Lebowitz answered

Specializes in Anti-Aging Medicine

Platelet Rich Plasma: Very effective for hair regrowth at this point. No side effects. It's your own blood! Examples: J Cutan Aesthet Surg. 2014 Apr;7(2):107-10. Platelet-rich plasma in androgenic alopecia: myth or an effective tool. Biomed Res Int. 2014;2014:760709. Epub 2014 May 6. The effect of autologous activated platelet rich plasma (AA-PRP) injection on pattern hair loss: clinical and histomorphometric..

Answered 11/28/2017

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