If you are worried about hair loss as a side effect of chemotherapy treatment a cold cap may be an option for you. This section will explain the cold cap in detail and help you decide if it is something worth discussing with your doctor.
A “cold cap” is the term often used to describe a method of cooling the scalp. Scalp cooling (which can only be used with chemotherapy and not other treatments) can help to prevent or reduce the side effect of hair loss or hair thinning that happens as a result of some chemotherapy treatments.
Cold caps are only effective and suitable for some types of chemotherapy and cancer types and are not available in all hospitals. If your doctor advises that a cold cap is suitable then it is something that you will have to try for yourself as, unfortunately, there is no guarantee that it will work. However, when it does work it can help to reduce the amount of hair loss quite dramatically, sometimes resulting in no hair loss on the scalp at all.
Cold Caps can also be known as Cool caps, Cold hood, Cold hat, Cold hood dryer, Cooling hats, cooling machine.
Hopefully the topics below will help you to understand if this may be an option suited to you: