I'm 21 year old women. I've been facing severe hair loss. Dermatologist prescribed 2%tugain. But hair loss is too severe.
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Hello, here I would try help you in understanding your hair loss problem, and with proper understanding of why hair loss is persisting in your case it may be helpful for you to take proper decision as to what to do next. Since there are many types of hair loss, finding the cause can be difficult. We will cover the most common causes of hair loss occurring on normal unscarred (assuming you have non scarred type, since it has not been examined) scalp skin. The medical term for hair loss is alopecia. Life vicissitudes, including illness, emotional trauma, protein deprivation (during strict dieting), and hormonal changes like those in pregnancy, puberty, and menopause may cause hair loss. Several health conditions, including thyroid disease, iron deficiency anemia, and secondary syphilis, can cause hair loss. While thyroid blood tests and other lab tests, including a complete blood count (cbc), on people who have ordinary hair loss are usually normal, it is important to exclude treatable causes of hair loss. There are numerous ways to categorize hair loss. One must first examine the scalp to determine if the hair loss is due to the physical destruction and loss of hair follicles (scarring or cicatricial alopecia). If the scalp appears perfectly normal with plenty of empty hair follicles, this is called non-scarring hair loss. On the other hand, cicatricial alopecia permanently destroys the follicles. Non-scarring hair loss also happens in situations where there is physical or chemical damage to the hair shaft, resulting in breakage. Occasionally, it may be necessary to do a biopsy of the scalp to distinguish these conditions. Sometimes, a physician may pull a hair to examine the appearance of the hair shaft as well as the percentage of growing hairs (anagen phase). Some conditions produce small areas of hair loss, while others affect large areas of the scalp. Common causes of patchy hair loss are alopecia areata (small circular or coin size bald patches on the scalp that usually grow back within months), traction alopecia (thinning from tight braids or ponytails), trichotillomania (the habit of twisting or pulling hair out), tinea capitis (fungal infection), and secondary syphilis. Some common causes of diffuse hair loss are pattern alopecia, drug-induced alopecia, protein malnutrition, and systemic disease-induced alopecia (cancer, endocrine disease, and telogen effluvium). So you see treating hair fall may not be as simple as it seems, there is an entire branch of medicine speicallizing in hair problems, it is called trichology. And lastly most of cases of hair loss are treatable in modern day. Hope my answer was helpful. Thank you.
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Dear Lybrate user, tugain 2% solution is used in the treatment of hair growth and male pattern baldness. Tugain 2% solution has no effect in receding hairline and baldness at the front part of the scalp. About 2 percent of tugain 2% solution is used in women who have thinning hair. Tugain 2% solution needs to be applied topically on the skin. It falls under a category of drugs known as vasodilators. On using tugain 2% solution you may experience certain side effects. These are skin rash, itchiness, acne, redness of the skin, a burning sensation on the scalp, facial hair growth and a sudden increase in hair loss. Certain rare reactions that may occur in case too much of tugain 2% solution is absorbed into the body are problems with eyesight, chest pain, fainting, dizziness, fast or irregular heartbeat, headache, lightheadedness, rapid weight gain, and swelling. We mainly deal with such kind of issues by administering hair fast medical treatment. Hair fast actually, is a cyclical vitamin therapy programme. It triggers hair growth through a balanced micronutrient environment. The therapy does not involve the use of any medicine, but the low dose vitamins. We use separate gender-specific nutrients to have the appropriate combination for better results. We are inviting you to avail our video consultation service. This shall enable you to discuss this kind of issue with one of our senior doctors just like the face-to-face interaction very conveniently.
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