Latest solution for hair loss - Dr. Urmila Nischal

Minoxidil is a gold standard in treating hair loss. Hair loss is a process is which the hair becomes thin and becomes thin and there is balding in men and women. Minoxidil is a Potassium channel opener. It increases the blood flow to the hair follicles they are giving increase oxygen, increased blood supply, and nutrients to the hair follicles these causes their increased growth, prevents thinning and helps them to be maintained at a sustained level. So what is the underlying cause for hair loss? If it is androgenetic hair loss, that is the male pattern hair loss or female pattern hair loss, what happens the hair follicles under the influence of the hormones 5 hydrotestosterone which is converted to dihydrotestosterone. This dihydrotestosterone makes the hair follicle become thinner and thinner. Minxoidil is preventing this. The underlying process is continuing, if you want to sustain the increased hair growth whatever you have attained you have to keep on using minoxidil. However it doesn’t have time limit. If you wish for 2 or 3 years then no problem. When you stop minoxidil, your hair loss that has been progressing at the base line, it is going to progress at the same level. It is not going to increase or neither it is not going to be a sudden hair fall. Minoxidil is going to sustain your hair growth. So the moment the nutritional supplement or that sustaining effort by minoxidil is stopped the hair is not going to fall overnight or a week or moth the effect still remains for a long time. So Minoxidil is absolutely safe in controlling hair loss for a long time. Hair fall is a different ball game altogether. There the nutritional aspects are all coming into picture there you don’t need Minoxidil. Where there is androgenetic pattern has to be used and it is safe, it is only hyped that minoxidil causes hair loss . Now we have such good formulations that are non alcohol based which are water based so that the irritation potential is less so there is no flaking or scaling of the scalp after the application of minoxidil. So please use minoxidil safely. It has absolutely no problem whatsoever and whatever you feel that it causes increased hair fall after stopping, it is just a myth once you stop the nutritional supplement to the hair, it is going to require something. It won’t sustain itself. It is gradually going to continue its baseline thinning and that is how it works so minoxidil is safe. Don’t worry about increased hair fall after using minoxidil.