{"id":775,"date":"2011-01-26T14:02:02","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T14:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lucindaellery-hairloss.co.uk\/blog\/?p=775"},"modified":"2021-06-18T11:51:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T11:51:13","slug":"hair-loss-treatments-pros-and-cons-pt-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lucindaellery-hairloss.co.uk\/blog\/hair-loss-treatments\/hair-loss-treatments-pros-and-cons-pt-3.php","title":{"rendered":"Hair loss treatments: pros and cons (pt.3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are numerous hair loss treatments available now, some of which we have looked at already. Some of them may work for you, whilst some may be a waste of time and money. The best way to find out is to consult your doctor and to do as much research on each as possible.<\/p>\n<p>To point you in the right direction, here are a few pros and cons of one more hair loss treatment. This treatment is suitable for people with more than 50 per cent hair loss.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UVB treatment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is similar to PUVA treatment, except that it uses a different wavelength of ultraviolet (UV) light. It is often used to treat people with more than 90 per cent hair loss, as well as those with skin conditions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pros<\/strong>: This treatment is often free on the NHS.<br \/>\n<strong>Cons<\/strong>: It is time-consuming, as you have to stand in a UV cubicle (or sun bed) for two to three times a week. Each session will need to be increasingly longer.<br \/>\n<strong>Cons<\/strong>: You are likely to experience painful burning of the skin and an increased risk of skin cancer, like with PUVA.<br \/>\n<strong>Cons<\/strong>: This treatment has rarely proven to be effective at improving hair growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are numerous hair loss treatments available now, some of which we have looked at already. Some of them may work for you, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucindaellery-hairloss.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucindaellery-hairloss.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucindaellery-hairloss.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucindaellery-hairloss.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucindaellery-hairloss.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucindaellery-hairloss.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1580,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucindaellery-hairloss.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions\/1580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucindaellery-hairloss.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucindaellery-hairloss.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucindaellery-hairloss.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}