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Your own blood is spun and the platelet-rich part injected back — the idea is supported, the recipe is not: hardly two practices do the same thing.
Also known as: PRP · platelet-rich plasma · autologous blood · vampire lift
Open in the tool — with search and all the links →This compilation is for information and replaces neither medical diagnosis nor treatment. If you have symptoms, see a doctor.
Ten to thirty millilitres of blood are drawn and separated into layers in a centrifuge. The layer holding the platelets is drawn off and injected into the scalp, the joint or the skin. Platelets carry growth factors; the reasoning is that a high density of them starts a repair process.
The trouble with the evidence lies in the method itself. Spun once or twice, with or without activation, two- to eightfold platelet concentration, differing volumes and intervals — “PRP” is not one recipe but a family of them. Pooled analyses show, in pattern hair loss, more hairs per square centimetre than under sham treatment; the groups are small, the spread between studies wide, and part of the work comes from those who sell the device. The usual course is three sessions a month apart, then top-ups every three to six months. Without top-ups the effect fades.
On safety: the substance is your own blood, so an allergy to it is not possible. What remains is the procedure — pain on injection, swelling and headache for a day or two, and the risks of any needle: infection, bruising, rarely injury to a nerve or vessel. What decides is therefore who does it and how cleanly, not which machine sits on the shelf.
Ten to thirty millilitres of blood per session, three sessions a month apart, then every three to six months. Something shows at the earliest after three to six months, because a hair cycle takes that long — not after the first session.
Concentration, volume, number of sessions, price per session and price of the top-up. Whoever cannot say does not compare with the studies they cite either.
Iron stores and thyroid belong before the first session, not after. If something is there, it changes more — and starting both at once makes it unreadable which one worked.
Two- to eightfold platelet concentration, spun once or twice, activated or not — those are different treatments under one name. To compare, ask for concentration, volume and number of sessions, not the name.
Expected: the scalp is tight, tender and slightly swollen; some have a headache for a day. Anything lasting more than a week, throbbing or discharging, should be looked at.
With too few platelets, with clotting disorders, on blood thinners (to be weighed by drug), with an infection at the puncture site, and with active cancer in the treated area.
It is not a one-off. Three sessions, then a top-up every three to six months — without continuing, after a year one is back where one started. The cost runs on accordingly.