Still Losing Hair While Using Minoxidil? This Is Why

Live at five with your host tess fortuna of it really works vitamins every day at five o'clock uk time, i'm answering your hair loss and hair care related questions. If you have your own question, comment below on any of our videos or feel free to dm us, we're on instagram we're at it really works vitamins. So, let's get on with the live, show the question for the day is: it came in just yesterday, i'm still losing hair while using minoxidil. Why okay? So this is a very common question, as you know, let's talk about minoxidil and how it works, because this is going to show you why hair shedding happens when you first start using minoxidil. So, as you know, minoxidil is a very popular over-the-counter hair loss treatment. It'S also called rogaine, which is the brand name. It comes in a topical gel or a foam when people first start using minoxidil to restore their hair. Some people do find that hair loss seems to be happening at a much faster rate than before. So why is that? And what can you do to understand? Why shedding happens? We need to look at the hair growth cycle and how minoxidil works its way into the hair growth cycle. What exactly is going on? Okay, guys, let's go! Your hair follicles go through four stages of hair growth, so the stages that minoxidil works, its magic on are the anagen phase and the telogen phase. The anagen phase of hair growth is its growing phase. This is where the hair is being pushed out from the root. Applying minoxidil may extend the length of the anagen phase, then there's the telogen phase. This is the resting phase where your hair follicle is just resting and when it's done growing, but it's not ready to fall out so in clinical trials on rats and mice, minoxidil shortened the resting phase of hair from 20 days to one or two days, which is Why, when your hair is resting, it's then it falls out at a much faster rate than before when you're using minoxidil. I also just want to add in a bit of a reminder that minoxidil is also classed as a vasodilator. It means that it dilates your blood vessels so that blood flows more easily when it's applied. An increase in blood circulation to your scalp could be part of why minoxidil increases hair growth. So, let's discuss what causes minoxidil shedding. So primarily it's because of the um. How minoxidil affects the anagen and the telogen phase, and also common side effects of using minoxidil include mild itching burning, flaky, skin and hair shedding. So this is because minoxidil is, as i just mentioned, speeding up the resting phase of your hair and so the hair. That'S in the resting phase falls out at a much faster rate than it normally would have. No fear, though, because minoxidil also extends the growing phase of your hair follicles. Even this means that, even though some hair is shedding it um. Oh sorry, where am i in my notes? This means that, even though some hair is shedding it's to be expected at first new hair growth should soon replace the hair that you've lost. So if you've just started using minoxidil, not everyone will experience shedding as a side effect, while some people may experience it severely there, just at the moment, isn't enough data to show how many people are going to experience, lots and lots of hair loss at the beginning Of their process of using minoxidil, so can you prevent minoxidil shedding there isn't actually much you can do to prevent minoxidil shedding or even predict if you're going to experience it when you start using the product. One thing to be aware of is that the higher the concentration of minoxidil, the more powerful that it's likely to be so using a foam with two percent concentration of minoxidil could cause fewer side effects, including including the hair shedding than five percent concentration of minoxidil. So if you're seeing a lot of hair loss, it could be a good idea to switch to a less powerful dose of minoxidil. If you're concerned about hair loss and you haven't started using minoxidil yet then you should start with a lower concentration and work. Your way up to a higher one, if you need to so how long does minoxidil shedding last fall, the result of minoxidil may vary from person to person and in general, it takes around two months to be consistent with minoxidil to really achieve results. So after four months of using minoxidil, you should start to see the end of hair loss and start to see hair growth. If it's been four months and you're still shedding hair, it may not be related to minoxidil. So it's really really important - and i mentioned this in all of my videos because, as you know, i'm not a doctor, but i do know a heck of a lot about hair care and hair loss and hair growth treatments. It'S really important to speak to your doctor because you may be experiencing underlying symptoms of something else which is causing the hair loss. It might not be related to minoxidil so if you've been using minoxidil for several weeks and you're, still seeing more and more hair loss. Just go and speak to your doctor about it there may be, they may be able to determine exactly what's going on with you. Another important, serious side effect that you should be thinking of just. I need to point this out because i just don't want you to think it's just not related to minoxil, because it probably is, if you're using minoxidil and you have yellow green or grey discharge coming from broken skin on your head, persistent scales, redness or irritation on Your scalp and sudden patchy hair loss that doesn't fit with your normal hair loss pattern or a mental health issue that you've never experienced before depression. 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