Will Steroid injections help, or hinder PRP treatments for Hair loss?

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Recently had a PRP w/Acell treatment - would having steroid injections help the success rate, or mess up the benefits of PRP?

Jae Pak, MD · Answer

You need to understand what you are treating before mixing treatment plans.  Ask your doctor about steroid injections and PRP treatments.  Your doctor need to understand why you are having steroid injections, where, and what type.

Jason Emer, MD · Answer

I combine with progesterone to help, if this is genetic hair loss.  early stage genetic hair loss, low strength steroid helps.  I suggest seeing a hair loss expert.  Best, Dr. Emer.

Jeff Donovan, MD, PhD · Answer

Complicated question and I would need to know more about your history of hair loss.If you have genetic hair loss or telogen effluvium, steroid injections are of no value and yes, steroid injections would "mess up" the benefits of PRP.If you have alopecia areata, the two can be used but never together and always 8 weeks apart from one another. I recently published our use of PRP in alopecia areata in the JAAD Case Reports (see link below). Dr Trink and colleagues published a study in 2013 in the British Journal of Dermatology of 45 patients who were randomized to receive either steroid injections or PRP for their alopecia areata. Results were overall similar if not a little better for PRP. For other inflammatory alopecias, PRP may have a role but again never with steroids. They should always be apart.Be sure to see a physician who specializes in hair loss to guide you. PRP most certainly has benefit but needs to be used properly if using for inflammatory conditions that are also responsive to steroids.

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