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Honey Heals Chronic Dandruff, Scaly, Itchy Scalp (Seborrheic Dermatitis)

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– Honey Heals Chronic Dandruff, Scaly, Itchy Scalp (Seborrheic Dermatitis):

Amazingly, something as simple as crude honey has been found to alleviate an embarrassing scalp condition that most body care products and drugs can’t even make a dent in. 

Honey’s strange power to resolve chronic dandruff and seborrheic dermatitis, while common knowledge within traditional ‘folk medicine’ systems of healing and countless personal anecdotes, has only recently been ‘clinically confirmed’ to the point where a peer-reviewed study was published on the phenomenon in the European Journal of Medical Journal, over a decade ago.

Titled, “Therapeutic and prophylactic effects of crude honey on chronic seborrheic dermatitis and dandruff,”[i] researchers investigated the use of crude honey applied topically to thirty patients with chronic seborrheic dermatitis of the scalp, face and front of the chest. Seborrheic dermatitis is a common skin disorder that mainly affects the scalp, usually causing itchy, scaly, red skin and stubborn dandruff, and is often resistant to conventional, chemical-based treatment and a significant source of embarrassment.  

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Scientists inject patient’s own blood plasma into head to stimulate hair growth

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– The vampire ‘cure’ for baldness: Scientists inject patient’s own blood into head to stimulate hair growth’:

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Injections of ‘platelet-rich plasma’ (PRP) which have been extracted from the blood, are already used to combat ageing on the face and hands, reported the Sunday Telegraph.

In the latest research by scientists at the International Hair Research Foundation, the University of Brescia in Italy and the Hebrew University Medical Centre in Israel, used 45 sufferers with alopecia areata, affecting two per cent of the population.

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No dye: Cancer patients’ gray hair darkened on immune drugs

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This undated combination of photos provided by the Journal of the American Medical Association in July 2017 shows a cancer patient with gray hair that unexpectedly turned dark while taking new immunotherapy drugs. Fourteen such cases were among 52 lung cancer patients being followed to see whether they developed bad side effects from the drugs – Keytruda, Opdivo and Tecentriq. (JAMA via AP)

– No dye: Cancer patients’ gray hair darkened on immune drugs:

Cancer patients’ gray hair unexpectedly turned youthfully dark while taking novel drugs, and it has doctors scratching their heads.

Chemotherapy is notorious for making fall out, but the 14 patients involved were all being treated with new immunotherapy drugs that work differently and have different side effects. A Spanish study suggests that may include restoring hair pigment, at least in patients with lung cancer.

With the first patient, “we thought it could be an isolated case,” said Dr. Noelia Rivera, a dermatologist at Autonomous University of Barcelona.

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Scientists find skin cells at the root of balding, gray hair

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– Scientists find skin cells at the root of balding, gray hair:

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have identified the cells that directly give rise to hair as well as the mechanism that causes hair to turn gray – findings that could one day help identify possible treatments for balding and hair graying.

“Although this project was started in an effort to understand how certain kinds of tumors form, we ended up learning why hair turns gray and discovering the identity of the cell that directly gives rise to hair,” said Dr. Lu Le, Associate Professor of Dermatology with the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center at UT Southwestern. “With this knowledge, we hope in the future to create a topical compound or to safely deliver the necessary gene to hair follicles to correct these cosmetic problems.”

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