Androgenetic Alopecia: Diagnosis and Treatment
How is it diagnosed?
- To carry out a proper diagnosis and successful androgenetic alopecia, it is essential that your doctor perform a proper examination of the possible personal and family history.
- You should also take into account the possibility that androgenetic alopecia associated with other disorders appears capillaries.
- There may be other forms of alopecia, which appear alongside androgenetic alopecia.
- Other types of alopecia that may raise confusion with androgenetic alopecia are telogen effluvium, anagen effluvium, traction alopecia, loose anagen syndrome, drug-induced alopecia, alopecia areata diffuse, and so on.
What is the treatment of androgenetic alopecia?
Treatment of alopecia is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity. It is paradoxical that a process essentially cosmetic dyes, wake up so deep a concern among mankind.
The most frequently used treatments are:
Placebo Products
Placebo mean by substance that, lacking its own therapeutic action, produces some healing effect if the recipient is convinced that the substance has really such an action. Although they are not placebos in the strict sense, the market is saturated with preparations of vitamins and vital substances which tend to strengthen the hair. Its usefulness is more than doubtful, since I really only benefit from its use those alopecia secondary to a deficit determined.
Minoxidil
It works by increasing the thickness of the hair shaft and reducing the percentage of hairs in decay phase. It is used in different concentrations and is sometimes associated with other substances to increase its effectiveness.
Finasteride
It is an orally administered drug that blocks testosterone to dihydrotestosterone, the hormone most responsible for androgenetic alopecia. It is also used in the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia. It has been shown to stop hair loss greatly and a significant proportion of men, stimulates the growth of new hair.
Oral antiandrogens
In women can use oral antiandrogens: cyproterone acetate or flutamide. Reduce the fall and seborrhea.
Surgical treatments
You can perform hair transplants, in which hairs are implanted from the posterior or lateral of the head in the same patient. There are other technical variables as the extent and location of alopecia.
What steps can be taken at home?
Each must decide how it affects hair loss in your life. Androgenetic alopecia affects a large part of the male population and each person reacts differently.
It is important to try to accept this type of alopecia. Alopecia is a biological process and, as such, can be stopped or delayed, but never cured.