This archive report was first published on 3 November 2019.
Published on November 3, 2019, a 23-year-old computer science student from UoN, Ibrahim Kullow, shares his experience with Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) treatment for premature balding.
PRP is a procedure that extracts your own blood, specifically, the platelets, which are then injected around and on the troublesome area. This technique can be used to clear the skin, grow hair right, and repair wonky athletic knees.
At Hair Hub Trichology Centre, I meet Ibrahim Kullow, who is suffering from premature balding and has undergone five sessions of PRP treatment. He has one more session to go, and the process requires a once a month procedure for six months, tapering it off till once or twice in a year for maintenance.
PRP is a celebrity-endorsed treatment that started off by Kobe Bryant, then Tiger Woods, and A-Rod for their various athletic injuries, particularly the knees. When Mrs. KKW did it, she called it a vampire facial, but this was misleading because PRP goes into and through the skin, and is not a superficial face mask.
The process is very clean, sterile, and contained. PRPs require a numbing cream on the area being treated, and use microneedles all over the said area, which minimises the intensity of pricks and makes it not painful. PRP targets any part of the body, including the scalp, and can be used to stimulate collagen, which makes wrinkles disappear.
Use science, not magic to restore your hairline. It is a one-hour procedure, unlike facial PRP, which takes a generous two hours. Post-PRP scalp recovery falls shy of an hour. Growth of hair will not be accelerated under PRP, but it will gain volume.
On the fourth day after my treatment, I poke at my face, and it is softer than a baby's bum. I cleanse it like a baby's face. The reason PRP is becoming such a phenomenon is that your own body will not reject its blood. But one has to wait till they are at least 25 because the body's ability to heal and regenerate is at its peak.
