FUT heal time for donor area, 1 month post op.

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Hi Doctor Good Day to you. i had done fut hair transplant 1900 graft from back side and completed 1 month .. but today i when i light scratch back area shoeing small blood in my figure . how long it will take to heal

Ken Anderson, MD, FISHRS · Answer

Dear saku245,
Thank you for posting this question. Sometimes surgeons will use sutures that dissolve under the skin, and on occasion the suture material itself is "spit" out by the body, and a small amount of bleeding can accompany this. The scar on your head will be 80% healed at 6 months, and technically takes about 2 years to reach it's final, mature state. I hope this information is helpful to you.
Kind Regards,
Ken Anderson, MD, FISHRS

Emrah Cinik, MD · Answer

After the surgery, the healing phase can take up to few months. Bleeding and Itchiness are known and can be seen during this phase. But i would suggest to consult with your doctor again. He will give you the right advises by following your case.

Jae Pak, MD · Answer

If you are having bleeding and healing issues, it is best to contact your doctor for a follow up.  FUE usually heals within days (not months).

Cory S. Goldberg, BSc, MD, FRCS(C) · Answer

Bleeding is very unusual 1 month after surgery.  It really depends on what kind of donor site harvest technique was used.  When you say you had FUT done, that stands for Follicular Unit Transplantation, and refers to how the hair was grafted into the recipient site (presumably the front and temporal scalp areas in most people).  That has nothing to do with the back of the head, or the donor area.  If the hair grafts were taken from the back of your head using the old strip harvest method, and you had sutures or staples to close the incision, you'd still have a long, linear scar on the back of your scalp.  That can take up to 6 weeks to heal, and if you scratched it with your finger nails, you could re-injure the incision and cause some light bleeding.If you had the FUE (Follicular Unit Extraction) method for harvesting hair from the back of your scalp, you should have 1900 very small, round scars that are barely visible or noticeable.  Those normally heal well within a week, and it would be very, very hard to see how you could cause fresh bleeding one month out.  On rare occasion, you could develop a small cyst at the donor area from an ingrown hair - that can happen with either strip or FUE technique, and would cause a small bump.  That could also explain the small amount of bleeding, but could also lead to a minor infection, so keep an eye on it.If this was a single event I wouldn't worry to much, as long as everything else is healing well, and it doesn't happen again.  If this is something that happens regularly, you should go back and see your surgeon and have your donor area examined.

William Rassman, MD (retired) · Answer

Scratching your head is bad as it can introduce an infection if your finger nail breaks the skin. The bleeding indicates to were to hard on the scratch

FUT heal time for donor area, 1 month post op.

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