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‘Treat hair with care’

R. Jagadeeswara Rao

Visakahpatnam: If you are a regular visitor to beauty parlours and skin clinics that have been mushrooming in the city and claims to treat skin, hair and related problems? Beware! Treatment of hair-related problems by quacks, beauticians, hairdressers and sundry may be more harmful than the problems itself.

At a media conference here, S. Murugusundram, the Secretary of The Hair Research Society of India, Chennai, explained the harmful consequences of treatment of hair-related problems by unqualified persons.

Proven and tested medicines are available in allopath for treatment of hair-related problems like hair fall, baldness, Dr. Murugusundaram said, adding that as publicised by some interested parties, these medicines have no side effects.

Gullible people fall prey to attractive advertisement by beauticians and the so called skin clinics and invites problems.

Hair, considered to be the ‘crowning glory’ of a person’s appearance, was an appendage that derives blood from the skin.

Treatment by quacks and unqualified persons could damage hair and the underlying system. Similarly electrolysis and laser treatment by unqualified persons could result in irreparable damage. With a view to make a fast buck, quacks and beauty parlours create panic among people. This amounted to commercialising a noble profession.

Dr. Murugusundram said that media had also been promoting quackery and unethical information regarding hair, its disorders, care and treatment. The Hair Research Society would try to curb it.

Since hair is an appendage of the skin, only a dermatologist could give proper treatment, Dr. Murugusundaram asserted. Government should initiate steps to curb these unethical practices by quacks and others.

The Hair Research Society on its part would try to create awareness among people about various aspects of hair through media newsletters etc. Dr. Murugusundram urged media to help create awareness among people.

Answering a question, Dr. Murugusundram said that use of any hair dye could result in problems like white patches.

T. Narayana Rao, Professor of Dermatology and K. Venkata Chalam, Assistant Professor, Andhra Medical College participated.

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