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Common Treatment for Men’s Hair Loss

Medication

There is some prescribed medication that can be used to treat male pattern blindness or the already popular over the counter (OTC) drugs that that has been approved by United State Food and Drug Administration to use in treating hair loss. These drugs are.

Minoxidil – Also known as Rogaine can be gotten over the counter. This medication was created to treat hair loss; rather, it was meant to treat high blood pressure, then it was discovered that it has excessive and unwanted hair growth as its side effect. For this reason, developers then worked on it and made it more suitable to treat hair loss. The medication could be in the form of either liquid or foam.

Finasteride – Finasteride is usually a drug and was also not initially created to treat male pattern baldness instead of treat and fight against prostate cancer. The use of this drug decreases the amount of hormone in the scalp called DHT and DHT is a hormone that causes follicles in the scalp to become thinner. So, when you take in Finasteride, you decrease the DHT hormone and give more room for the hair to grow.