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Cutting hair to aid recovery ?

Delancey · 2012-06-07 22:32:30

My mother tells me stories of girls/women having their hair shorn years ago to aid recovery from an illness. People with a keen interest in history might be familiar with the pictures of the daughters of Czar Nicholas of Russia with their heads shaved following a dose of measles. Was there / is there any scientific basis…

07-06-2012 10:32pm

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My mother tells me stories of girls/women having their hair shorn years ago to aid recovery from an illness. People with a keen interest in history might be familiar with the pictures of the daughters of Czar Nicholas of Russia with their heads shaved following a dose of measles.

Was there / is there any scientific basis to this practice or was it just an ' old wives tale ' that growing hair inhibited recovery ?

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#2 08-06-2012 8:19pm

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Cutting hair does not inhibit its growth so total old wives tale

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I think that practice came about not to aid recovery but to prevent the hair becoming dirty, matted, uncomfortable and possibly infested during prolonged periods confined to bed when the patient would be too ill to maintain it themselves and too weak to have it done for them.

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