When patients use Wishcaps it activates Hair Vasoconstriction, the narrowing of blood vessels resulting from contraction of the muscular wall of the vessels. Wishcaps are cooled to below freezing temperatures (approximately -32°C), the blood vessels carrying the harmful drug agents to the scalp become constricted, resulting in reduced damage to the hair follicles and prevention of hair loss. All hair on your body grow out of hair follicles, small blood vessels in the scalp supply these cells with food and oxygen and carry away waste.
Drugs in the bloodstream will also be carried to the hair follicles. When the blood vessels in the scalp are cooled it creates Vasoconstriction resulting in reduced blood flow through them. Cooling the scalp during treatment reduces the chance of drugs reaching the hair follicles, resulting in decreased hair loss.
What are Cold Caps? Cold Caps are a therapy method of scalp cooling. A specially designed Hypothermia Cap made up of a glycerine-based gel which maintains pliability even at temperatures of -200 to -300C. The cover material is water resistant flexible fabric and the chin strap assures good position maintenance.