Hydrogel for hairloss?

[shivers20]

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-t ... -skin.html

Apparently its made up of water and Dextran. You can find dextran at your local pharmacy store. Its an ingredient found in lubricant eye drops. Anyone familiar with this and do you think it will have any effect on hair loss?

 

[sapinho]

Per the article you'd have to scalp yourself and apply the hydrogel as a regenerative skin-matrix. Good luck with that.

Joking aside, I suppose someone could make a machine that automated drilling out a dead follicle with a laser, filling it with Amatokin-impregnated hydrogel, and temporarily capping if off at the surface with something like superglue; all done in a split second. Who knows.

 

[roseofthenorth]

I'm not really positive about this but Dextran has some serious side effects like cerebral edema (brain) as well as problems in the blood such as platelet dysfunction. If you have Diabetes, you might want to reconsider its use.

Better check with your doctor!