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Severe Hair Loss. On Multivitamin Supplements And Minoxidil. What Are The Side Effects?
I am having severe hair loss ( more than 200 hairs/day) suddenly though i always had medium hair loss . Recently i came from USA to India , 3 months ago. I seem to be having proper diet and healthy life style and already in multivitamin for hair for past 1 year . What can help me to stop my hair loss ? I am reluctant to get on minoxidil considering itz side effect of aging the skin.. please suggest
Mon, 21 Oct 2013
Hi severe hair loss can be nutritional deficiency or androgenic alopecia .though minoxidil is the drug of choice in androgenic alopecia u are reluctant to use u can try q-sera lotion twice daily where u will find response within 20 days along with follihair tablet daily once and use of scalpe lotion twice a week.side effects of minoxidil lotion can be headache.reversable hair loss.vomiting etc
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