If you sleep on your stomach, you can rub the sides of your head and move back and forth while you sleep.
Needless to say, this is not a good idea. Instead, you’ll want to sleep on your back.
In addition, you’ll want to sleep with your head in an elevated position.
This is once again designed to help keep your head from rubbing back and forth across the pillow or otherwise brushing up against your bed in such a way as to shake those hair follicles loose.
Whenever possible, keep your head propped up on pillows at a 45-degree angle, especially in the first three or four days after your operation.
Not only does this help control the amount of shedding and leakage, but it can also help cut down on swelling and make the healing process go that much faster.
That said, while you want to sleep with your head reclined at such an angle, you don’t want it to hit your headboard, as this too can shake loose some follicles.
An easy fix here is to place a pillow between your head and your headboard.
Something little like that might not seem like much, but it can make a big difference in helping ensure that you don’t get patchy spots in your new head of hair
from extra follicles being shaken loose and thus achieving a more satisfying result overall.