Scalp conditions & bleach

Tellox

After bleaching my hair for a year or so (2001-2002), it irritated my scalp, and made it scale, and go red-raw. I've stuck with doing the tips recently, well, doing everything bar the roots.

Someone told me if I tried bleaching it with my scalp in its current condition (Its either has dermatitis/scaricis(sp?), not sure which one), that it could turn to cancer. This person's been known to tell tall-tales, but I thought I'd check it out.

I know,I'd want to be mad to do it anyway, but damnit,I like my hair bleach-blonde

Anybody know how severe the reaction could be if I bleached my hair completly again?

Auburn

If your scalp is raw, then it wouldn't be a good idea to bleach it. It could burn you / make the irritation worse. Also, bleach weakens your hair and could make hair fall out. IMO get the something for the scalp condition first and then when it's cleared up, try bleaching it again.

MeatProduct

Hi Tellox,

I'd say you should stay away from irrating the skin further. Since a young lad I had dry skin on my skalp. My good mother brought me to a number of hair specialists and they always either gave creams of shampoos. Most of these worked for a while but eventually the dryness would come back. Just last year I started to get interested in alternative therapies and I read a few accupuncture books. After this I went to an accupuncturist and we had a 2 hour chat (big difference to the 2 minutes I got from my doctor). He said that I had excessive heat in my blood and that I should change my diet. That worked. What he said that is helpful to you is that by using any kind of cream, shampoo or conditioner to get rid of dryness will eventually result in cancer after a number of years of repeatedly doing this. All the body is trying to do is get rid of its problem and move it to the outside of the body, hence the dry skin. Now buy putting on creams and the like the disease is forced back into the body and that has a rather bad result.

Sorry for the life story,

Nick

Capt'n Midnight

Burns are not good news - does not matter whether they are caused by sunlight, radiation, chemicals, heat or cold etc. - whichever way you look at it your skin is being damaged.

All cancer is, if one or more cells damaged such that they no longer respond to the normal signals to stop dividing - this can be genetic (oncogenes etc.) or it can be caused by environment. In these enlightened days most of the things that would readily cause cancer are banned from most products that you eat or are deliberately meant to come into conact with.

Anyway if the rumours are true then Tina Turner is nearly bald because her hair is falling out as a result of too much bleaching... ( Michael Jackson also had scalp problems <Ouch> )

alleepally

Meat, would be interested to know what changes in diet were recommended?

sionnach

is it really worth taking such a risk for something so inconsequential? (rhetorical question btw )

MeatProduct

Originally posted by alleepally
Meat, would be interested to know what changes in diet were recommended?

Well I had too much yang energy. I needed to balance my diet with more ying energy. There's lots you can find about ying and yang foods online. Another important factor is stress, try and remove as much stress from your life as possible. It really helped in my situation.

Nick

dudara

I don't know if the bleach is carcinogenic but if you think about it, it can't be good to use it if your scalp is raw. The skin is the first line of defence in the immune system, and if it's broken, bleeding or raw, then you've got gaps for infections/diseases to get in. Bleach is fairly nasty stuff chemically speaking, (For gods sake, we pur it down toilets). Wait until your scalp is well healed, and stick with bleaching the tips for a while.

The ying/yang stuff sounds interesting. I saw a sign recently for a chinese doctor/herbalist and I'm very tempted to try it the next time I need to go to a doctor.

MeatProduct

The ying/yang stuff sounds interesting. I saw a sign recently for a chinese doctor/herbalist and I'm very tempted to try it the next time I need to go to a doctor.

Well I was shocked with my first encounters with alternative therapies. Really. I had more success with the accupuncturist in one day than I had had with western medicine in 18 years!! It's the philosophy that got me mainly, it makes so much sense. Rather than curing the sympton, like western medicine, it treats the cause. A basic statement and clearly logical.

Nick