Ireland's James Dyson Award winner says the honour is “incredibly fulfilling” after an emotional development journey.
An Irishwoman who won the James Dyson Award for creating a portable scalp cooling device for cancer patients on chemotherapy says the award is “incredibly fulfilling” after an emotional development journey.
Scalp cooling can help prevent patients’ hair loss by shrinking the blood vessels in the scalp and reducing the damage caused to hair follicle cells.Newstalk Breakfast “I spent a lot of time with my mum during her infusions on the ward in UHL when she was undergoing treatment and from there, I was able to see a lot of the operational difficulties and logistical things that happened with scalp cooling treatment – a treatment that she availed of alongside her infusion treatment due to the fear of hair loss going through chemotherapy,” said Olivia.
“The cooler is cycling water through tubing up around a headpiece and that cooling of the scalp causes a mechanism called vasoconstriction, which is the tightening of the blood vessels to the scalp,” she said.
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