Let your hair is often very frustrated?

Let your hair is often very frustrated? Drug treatment is the murderer!

Everyone has the use of drugs to treat diseases of the experience, whether it is the use of oral, topical (local) or injection drugs, and drugs in the treatment of part of the course of the disease more or less affect the hair growth cycle, or have hair.

Drug caused by changes in hair growth cycle hair or have a reason for no more than two points: the influence of drugs growing follicles (anagen) and drug-induced changes in hair follicles enter the telogen (telogen).

These drugs produced changes in the use of drugs is usually a few days to several months after the (generalized or localized), and this hair loss is reversible upon discontinuation of treatment as long as the hair can be a long time to come back, Therefore, hair and certain drugs are associated have, but it must exclude other possible factors that lead to hair loss can only be determined are caused by drugs.

The reasons for hair loss

The causes of hair loss mechanism besides, there are the following factors will lead to hair loss:
(1) systemic diseases: endocrine such as thyroid, parathyroid, pituitary tumors and other abnormal and may cause hair loss, but the hair loss is reversible.

(2) skin diseases: seborrheic dermatitis, systemic lupus erythematosus, syphilis, leprosy, skin diseases such as fungal infection may cause alopecia, which is also reversible.

(3) living habits: abnormal Stay up habits such as smoking, alcohol consumption, malnutrition will lead to hair loss caused by scalp or secretion disorder.

(4) pressure: When the person's emotions in a state of tension, anxiety, they tend to promote the secretion of the scalp's sebaceous glands secrete a strong and scalp disorders, caused by hair follicles or damage caused by hair.

(5) Genetic: There are reports that genetic factors will affect the hair follicles of the sensitivity of dihydro-testosterone.

(6) drugs: Many drugs, such as chemotherapy drugs, oral contraceptives will lead to hair loss.

Therapeutic drug

Finasteride (Sophie Pei) is inhibited by 5 to restore? To treat hair loss, it can reduce 60% of blood testosterone dihydro injury, thus reducing the phenomenon of hair, the drug at the end of 1997 has been FDA approved for the treatment of baldness, the average dose of 1 mg / day, which may arise have sexual side effects lower (less than 4%), ejaculation is low, as well as reduced sexual function.

Minoxidil (Minoxidil), unlike finasteride inhibition are mediated by 5 Restore? To treat hair loss, but by the role of vasodilator, increasing blood flow to peripheral blood vessels, making nutrients can arrive scalp, thus increasing the survival rate of hair follicle ; whether it has to promote hair growth mechanism is still unknown, the drug in 1988 was FDA approved for the treatment of baldness; generally made of a dose of 2% or 5% solution twice a day, rub each applied 1 ml in the lesion.

People do not worry too much about the drug arising from hair, simply because the vast majority stop taking the drugs would not have hair, and long hair will gradually come back, but if suspected to be caused by drug hair, first rule out some possible factors, including whether there is not a normal life habits (such as Stay up, cigarette smoking, alcohol use), the pressure is too large and the family of genetic diseases.

If the above factors are ruled out, this may be caused by drug side effects, apart from the growth of hair follicles have been killed, as long as the stop taking this drug or to switch to other alternative medicines, drug-induced hair loss problem can be resolved, including the use of chemotherapy drugs for patients as well.

Finally, if baldness has caused, and now the market has also been a number of drugs have been used to treat baldness as minoxidil, finasteride, estrogen, spironolactone, etc., but in the selection must be used under a doctor's assessment in order to use the more comfortable, more secure.