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When taken orally, minoxidil may cause side effects such as fluid retention, elevated heart rate and increased body hair growth. If you develop side effects while using minoxidil, it’s important ...
Changes in hair: You may start to notice thinning, hair loss, brittleness, or dryness. Changes in skin : This often looks like noticeable dryness, flaky, or scaly skin, especially around the eyes ...
Minoxidil, when applied topically, is used for the treatment of hair loss. [14] It is effective in helping promote hair growth in people with androgenic alopecia regardless of sex. [14] Minoxidil must be used indefinitely for continued support of existing hair follicles and the maintenance of any experienced hair regrowth. [6] [7]
Hair styled with hair gel. Hair gel is a hairstyle product that is used to stiffen hair into a particular hairstyle. The end result is similar to, but stronger than, those of hair spray. Hair gel is most commonly used in the hairstyling of men, but it is not gender specific. Hair gel can come in tubes, pots, small bags, or even in a spray form.
A 2010 Cochrane review found that men taking finasteride for BPH (with a mean age of 62.4) are at increased risk for impotence, erectile dysfunction (ED), decreased libido, and ejaculation disorder for the first year of treatment. The rates became indistinguishable from placebo after 2–4 years and these side effects usually got better over time.
Take Wegovy, for example: In those clinical trials, only three percent of adults reported hair loss as an adverse reaction versus one percent on a placebo (hair loss was not a reported side effect ...
Cationic polymers are among the main functional components of hair gel. The positive charges in the polymers causes them to stretch, making the gel more viscous.Hair gels resist natural protein conformations and allow hair to be styled and textured, because the stretched-out polymer takes up more space than a coiled polymer and thus resists the flow of solvent molecules around it.
Hair reduction after six months was reported as 68.75% for alexandrite lasers, 71.71% for diode lasers, and 66.96% for IPL. Side effects were reported as 9.5% for alexandrite lasers, 28.9% for diode lasers, and 15.3% for IPL. All side effects were found to be temporary and even pigmentation changes returned to normal within six months. [14]