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- Hair Loss and Asthma/Eczema
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- Monkey Message
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- Philial
- Hair Loss and Pill
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- Thin Hair and Menopause
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Pill and Hair Loss
Is the Pill Responsible for My Hair Loss?
Yes, in many cases. When you ask your doctor he or she is likely to say, 'No. The Pill is the most widely-known, well-researched drug in medical history.
Don't you think we would have discovered it by now if it was causing hair loss?
Or your doctor may say, "Nonsense. The Pill contains oestrogen, which can only improve your hair." True. But it is the other component of the Pill, the progestogens, which trigger hair loss.It may come as a shock to those of us who were "brought up" on the Pill and swallowed it cheerfully for years as the convenient answer to birth control, but the fact is simple: The Pill can make your hair fall out. The progestogen components - norethisterone and norgestrel in the vast majority of oral contraceptives - have been blamed for causing alopecia androgenetica by doctors in Britain, West Germany and the US.'They report that some women on contraceptive pills with these components have developed acne vulgaris, hirsutism or scalp hair loss. The patients either come out in spots, grow hair where they don't want it, or go bald. Researchers at University College and St Mary's Hospital, London, reported these "detrimental effects" in 1979. Their report followed the research of endocrinologists in West Germany five years earlier, which listed similar effects in some women.