SuzziPad Chemo Cooling Cap for Chemotherapy Care for Men and Women, Pink

This is the only cold cap on Amazon that is actually good to use for Chemo. The rest that have gel pads that you freeze and then insert are awful - gaps in coverage and hard to conform to your head. This one is comfortable, great coverage and conforms nicely to head. I bought one to try and now will order 2 more so I can alternate them between my head and the cooler with dry ice during treatment.

Good value for the money. Great for migraine headaches.

It was well made, however my wife thought it was a little to heavy for her to wear. We returned this item

I bought these as a cheaper but still quality alternative for doing cold capping for chemo. Tldr; while I didn't get the product in the mail fast enough for my first chemo round and to NOT lose my hair (packaging NEEDS to change), once received the product helped my scalp health enough to grow my hair back while I'm still doing the chemo that lost it. My oncologist is impressed. Pics are after 13 weeks. BUY EARLY. WATCH SHIPPING LIKE A HAWK: The biggest warning for buyers is to get the caps before you start chemo early enough for a reorder and don't delay. Because my package was massively delayed and never came in I just waited to call like they ask you to, but my problem is once I called it was past the delivery time frame to get a reshipment even on an expedited basis ( although I had one of my calls tell me it wasn't, but it was). So order early, and if delayed call BEFORE the cut off for getting a reshipment so you can order again. I think the problem is that when orders are fulfilled for multiple hats, they place them in a bag still for delivery and not a solid box. The hats flop around in the bag and the bag catches on something, rips and the product gets lost. I know this because the second delivery (the first I never received) had tons of plastic tape wrapped around it after a big rip. Luckily no product was lost on second delivery, but it was a near thing. The packaging for multiple hat deliveries NEEDS. TO. CHANGE. It should be in a more secure box! I told the Amazon customer service manager I buy these to NOT look like Jeff Bezos. No offence to him, he does rock his bald head. SIZING: The product itself is superb. Just make sure you buy the right size. If you need frozen booties or gloves too, you can get a single hat in a pack as well, so that can be a good way to verify your size with an order of 1 as well. My batch order somehow ended up one size up, they still functioned ok for me but it flopped down into my eyes. Even with it lower on my head, I have still lost my eyebrows. :) YOUR KIT: * A buddy/helper to do switches if you are too tired, and/or iced up on hands and feet and especially if the cooler can't be in the same room for space restrictions * 1 larger rolling cooler (save your back!!!) * 3-4 bags of ice (we kept putting the ice back in the bags they came in after each use and reused as much as we could to save on money) * Nitrile gardening gloves for your helper to be comfy rooting through the icy cooler * Large easy open/close ziplock bags * Small cheap spray bottle for water * Gentle, good quality conditioner * Amazon basics heated blanket * Bag to carry non cooler things * a hammer - when reusing ice you may need to break it apart if it got melty before refreezing. Bonus frustration release moment because you're going to another chemo. :) OUR METHOD: 1) I bought 6 hats to rotate every 13 minutes or sooner, we rotating back to the first hat it was generally cool 2) freeze in bags the night before chemo in freezer 3) Hour before leaving, layer the hats and/or other freezing packs in the ice in the cooler 4) Put the first hat on 15 min before - spray water on roots, apply conditioner to roots - the goal here is to increase conductivity of the cold. 6) Check in and get to chemo 7) Bundle up the rest of your body in the cozy electric blanket. 8) Have your helper rebag and switch the hats up every 13 minutes or, if they start to feel too warm. Check that the hair is still damp/moist and if not reapply water/conditioner. 9) Helper needs to bag and put the last hat back in the cooler to refreeze. TIPS/NOTES: * Bag the hats inside out, it refreezes the inside of the hat more effectively where it contacts your scalp. * Another review did 10 min and 8 hats, it worked for me for 13 and 6, but I found that was pushing it. They can get warm. * The hats are easy to walk around in and comfortable. * You need to check that your skin/short hair hasn't gotten dry and respray if you only used water (which I did when my hair was only a buzz cut). * The hat freezing material was similar to the older elastoplast gloves provided by my hospital. Not as thick, but very effective. * Not having the right size of hat was only slightly annoying, but I do have a thin spot up top where the sections join. Likely from my slightly too large size. Small fit good and I'm 21 1/4" Medium was a bit big and rested on my ears. I would order smaller if you're borderline and not sure, the hats can stretch a bit. * The Amazon basics blanket was godsend to keep me warm when all my extremities were freezing, highly recommend getting it too. * For my treatment, I put the first hat on 15 minutes before and left on for 15 minutes after. * It didn't save my eybrows/eyelashes. COST: My overall cost was under 500 for everything: I got a good price on the hats, a rolling cooler off Craigslist, 5 hats here, 1 from the kit, 4 bags of ice periodically refreshed, cheap nitrile gloves and spray bottle. The amazon basics electric blanket was a gift. PRODUCT EVAL: The product was comfortable, amazing and was an easy slip on and slip off, I tried the other hat that has 6 gel packs, bulky, and it didn't work( lost my hair) and was challenging to put on and off stuffing gel packs in. By comparison, this had thin material that conducted the cold way better, similar to hospital provided materials, just not as thick, and no individual gel pack prep. The freezing material was better than the liquid gel packs too. CONCLUSION: I had great success with this product going through my chemo and will keep and continue to use it for any future chemos. I can't tell you it will save your hair from your first dose, but my oncologist is quite complementary of the hair I have growing back and that in her experience it's unusual to have this much grown back while still undergoing my chemo. She even encouraged me to write this review. The nurses were surprised at my chemo today as well. Best of health and luck in your treatment!

Update 3: Completed 4/4 AC. I did have a shed three weeks after completing chemo it seemed like it was the biggest shed overall. That may have been because it was December and I was wearing a wool beanie most of the time. I am grateful I kept up with cold capping because I never went bald. Update 2: completed 12 rounds of taxol and kept most of my hair. Used dry ice to cool 6 caps and change caps every 10-13 minutes. I also started capping one hour before treatment (during premeds) and continued capping for five hours afterwards. Now I’ve had 2 out of 4 rounds of AC and my hair is thinning on the crown and sides. It is easy to coverup with a hat or headband. Will try to update after I finish AC. Update 1: I have had 5 rounds of chemotherapy so far. I have used these caps for the past four treatments and have had minimal hair loss. I am following the same instructions as I did with the rental cold caps. I still have a long road ahead and will try to update again. Original Review After I tried using caps from a rental company, it was not a great experience with the caps and decided to purchase my own. I have only had two rounds of chemo so far. Yesterday was the first time wearing these caps. They are so much more comfortable to wear but I did change them out more frequently than the rentals, which didn’t seem to make a difference. I will try to provide an update about my hair as my journey continues.

The product works, but you have to buy many of them, replace them every 10 minutes top and ideally stack two of them together to make more pressure and the scalp. This product would be great if it was thicker and heavier.

We bought three. You get about 15 minutes of cooling on the scalp. We also use a water chiller in conjunction with this product. The chiller product we use It is by polar products. We've been using this combination and have no hair loss

I bought 2 of those for my wife undertaking a chemo treatment in the hope she would not loose her hair to no avail. First, they must be kept in the fridge only before use, we usually put them in the fridge 2 days before so the cold reaches deep in the gel but they reach room temperature within 15-20 minutes while treatment lasts for 30 to 90 minutes. Rotating them by putting the warm one in the cooler does not really help since you must wear that 30 minutes prior, then during and 30 minutes after the infusion. In the end, the wife lost her hair anyway. It may be useful for headache relief, I don't know. They are heavy but comfortable though! Please remove the mention about the chemo therapy statement in the product description, it is misleading.

Comfortable and cold! Does the job perfectly.

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I lost so much hair after abdominal surgery. This ice cap slowed it down almost immediately. Comfortable, nice size, easy to use, very comfortable, soft material. It stays cold just long enough (20 minutes). Use a deep freezer vs a fridge freezer if you have access to one. If your cap isn't cold enough long enough, your freezer is too warm.

Ich habe die Kappe für meine bevorstehende Chemo gekauft. Beim Testen stellte sich allerdings heraus, dass die Temperatur bei Weitem nicht ausreicht. Ich habe die Kappe mit 4 Grad Kälte aufgesetzt, doch schon nach 5 Minuten war die Temperatur auf über 10 Grad gestiegen. Ja, die Kappe kühlt, sie liegt gut an usw., und eignet sich damit eher für Kopfschmerzen u.ä., aber für eine Chemo, für die je nach Quelle zwischen 4 und max. 7 Grad empfohlen wird, ist die Kappe nicht geeignet. Sie wird viel zu schnell warm.