The Union Between Hair Loss And Blood Pressure Medication

Hair loss and blood pressure medication shares a deep bond! Don't raise your eyebrows, because Minodixil, the medication for treating baldness was originally used to treat high blood pressure.

It is a drug for treatment of high-blood pressure is now used to treat androgenic alopecia, inherited loss of hair and other types of hair loss.

The Story Of The Strong Bond Between Hair Loss And Blood Pressure Medication

Mino dixil is a vasodilator and was used as oral drug Loniten for treating high-blood pressure. But mino dixil showed interesting side effects on hair growth and showed signs of reversing baldness.

Upjohn Corporation in 1980s made a topical solution containing 2% mino dixil under the brand name Rogaine in the US for treating baldness. Outside United States the brand name is Regaine. For treating men a 5% concentration solution is used and for women 2% concentration solution is used. Rogaine is a hairloss medication approved by FDA. The active ingredient of Regaine, minodixil, which was originally a drug for treating hypertension or hbp, was tested as a topical application for regrowing hair and came up with good results.

However how mino dixil stimulates hair growth is still unknown. Mino dixil contains a blood vessel dilator, structure of Nitric Oxide (NO) and perhaps a nitric oxide agonist. This may be the answer to how mino dixil causes hair growth and stops hairloss.

How Regaine Works?

When hair starts thinning out the hair follicles shrink. Regaine, a clear alcohol based solution activates the hair follicles and increases their size thus extending the growing phase. Thus longer and thicker hairs appear on your scalp. Currently some researches have shown that mino dixil open the follicle's potassium channels located in the cells. Theory claims that by opening the channels mino dixil stimulates hair growth.

Some Facts About Regaine

Regaine is effective in growing hair in the crown area, not so much in the frontal hairline. However, it delays the loss of hair process and works more effectively in women than in men. Reasons! Unknown!

Regaine has to be applied on the thinning patches twice a day with the supplied spray or dropper.

You can get mino dixil solution in two strengths, Regular (2%) which has a success rate of 30 to 40% and Extra Strength (5%), the users of which claim a success rate of 50 to 60%. You can also get minodixil as a generic medication and can purchase as an over the counter drug without prescription.

Consider The Following Points Before Applying Rogaine

•  Persons below 18 years of age should not use it
  
• You can't use medicines like Corticosteroids, Petrolatum and Tretinoin while using topical mino dixil
  
• If you are a breast-feeding mother don't use mino dixil as this medicine can cause serious problem in passing of the breast milk
  
• Don't use mino dixil with other skin products like hair permanence or hair coloring
  
• Always take mino dixil as advised by your doctor. Overdose can cause serious cardiovascular problems and harmful effects on blood vessels
  
•  If you feel allergic to the topical mino dixil, visit your doctor

Thus, we know of the relation between hair loss and blood pressure medication

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