Jan 31 2008

Minoxidil 2% (regaine) and pregnancy.

"Minoxidil Regaine pregnant pregnancy"

Minoxidil Regaine pregnant pregnancy

I am on minoxidil 2% (regaine) for two years and I am two months pregnant. My gynaecologist asked me to stop minoxidil but I am afraid to lose my hair again…

There are no studies on women about the effect of minoxidil on the foetus during the pregnancy, on the animals there isn”t any teratogenic effect. Nevertheless, it is beacuse a little part of Minoxidil can go through the cutaneous barrier when it is used on the skin that we recommend to stop the treatment during the pregnancy. Finally, until the childbirth, hormonal changes will compensate the eventual hair loss due to minoxidil cease.

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Minoxidil Regaine Rogaine 2 % 4 % 5 % • 0 • Tags: Minoxidil (regaine) and pregnancy, Minoxidil 2%, minoxidil foam, minoxidil side effects, Regaine 2%, Rogaine 2%

Jan 17 2008

Do you think that Minoxidil could have accelerated my hair loss?

"Minoxidil acceleration hair loss"

Minoxidil acceleration hair loss

I am quiet worried. For over two months, I am using Minoxidil twice a day as my Doctor recommended me to do. I have the clear impression that I am losing more hair than in the past. Is it normal?

Sometimes, and in a few cases only (around 5% of the patients using the treatment), a hair loss may occur in the part treated with Minoxidil. Usually, it is just a transitional loss which often starts between two weeks and two months after the beginning of the treatment. It may be due to the acceleration of the loss process of those hair which where going to fall soon. I advice you to wait for two more months and then the beneficial effects of the Minoxidil should be visible. If this does not happen, you will have to stop it and possibly start to use Propecia.

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Jan 11 2008

Shock loss and second hair transplant.

"Shock loss second hair transplant"

Shock loss second hair transplant

Doctor, in August, I have had an hair transplant (not with you but with another serious surgeon, who is registered at the National medical association too) on my back area and I think I am feeling the hair coming out of my head. I already had a hair transplant with this Doctor, about 3 years ago, and I was really happy about the final result. At the beginning of August I asked him to perfect the previous surgery because a little line was hairless…but what worries me is the fall of the grafts implanted three years ago. In fact, although grafts existed on the left side of my front area, now I have this hairless strip. A few days ago this Doctor told me, once more, that the older grafts are going to grow back. If I am still worried, and I needed to ask to another specialist his advice, it is because after 4 months those grafts did not grow back (they fall 2 weeks after the second surgery). That is why I would like to know if the grafts that I lost (because of the anaesthesia? of the shock due to the new grafts placed next to them? …) will grow back for sure, and never fall again like the former ones?

Considering this hair loss process, it seems that you had a shock loss. Even if usually the shock loss occurs on the third month. Shock loss concerns, very often, already existent hair especially if there is a high degree of miniaturisation and it is linked to the degree of aggressiveness of the procedure. Personally, I am always extremely careful when there is a risk of shock loss. I never use adrenaline, and I reduce the number of incisions. I always ask my patients to take propecia and to use minoxidil during the weeks preceding the surgery. A shock loss of former grafts is very rare, really unusual. In spite of the fact that when you lose hair because of a hair transplant it can be permanent, with former grafts it is very exceptional ifthey do not grow back. That is why I recommend you to wait a couple of months before to consider a correction..

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Post Operative Consequences • 0 • Tags: hair loss, hair transplant, hair transplant restoration, Shock loss, Shock loss and second hair transplant

Jan 11 2008

Eyelashes Transplant

"Eyelashes Transplant"

Eyelashes Transplant

I have read once on an American web site that it is possible to make an eyelashes transplant. Could you give me more details about it?

Eyelashes Transplant is a fascinating topic. This technique has been redescovered recently. You will find all the details on my web site. We could use hair, or body hair which is even better, as donour area…

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Eyelashes Transplant • 1 • Tags: alopecia eyelashes, eyelash surgery, eyelash transplant, eyelash transplants