Hair Care

Can hair loss happen due to strong medications?

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Hair loss is a gradual process and sometimes it can be severe in the exogen phase where the hair shaft leaves the dermal papilla part and sheds off and doesn’t grow back. Most of the androgenetic alopecia cases experience severe hair loss in their mid-twenties and even in thirties. Hair loss also occurs due to consumption of strong medications for a prolonged period due to specific health ailments. Intake of strong antibiotics, medications for neuro issues, nerve issues, and cardiac issues also cause hair-loss. Medical ailments like dengue fever, typhoid, malaria causes severe hair loss as well. A lot of women these days consume birth control pills and emergency contraceptives which works within 72 hours’ time also causes severe hair loss and may cause scalp visibility as well due to hair thinning. Many other drugs like blood thinners, anti-depressant medications, kindly ailment drugs, thyroid medications, hormone replacement therapy drugs, cholesterol control drugs also cause severe hair loss. Apart from all these when an individual is doing crash diet and taking anabolic steroids during gym and body building causes baldness as well. Visiting a renowned aesthetic physician, Dermatologist or a plastic Surgeon is must when you face hair loss and are on medications for chronic ailments. So generally drugs causes interruption’s in the natural hair growth cycle of anagen, catagen and telogen phase and moves most the follicles to the telogen effluvium phase and forces an exit from the body. Hair loss happens due to medications within 2-3 months’ time post starting medications and in cases of Chemotherapy patients it goes rapidly and cause baldness and even on the eye brows and beard areas. Hair loss due to auto immune diseases are quite common where the hair follicles are not treated as part of the body and been exited out. Get your consultation done in a MAX hair clinic and know more about hair loss issues and the root causes of your hair loss.

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