Minoxidil HCL
Product Profile: Clinically, as a potassium channel opener, it can directly relax vascular smooth muscle, has a strong effect of dilating small arteries, reduces peripheral resistance and blood pressure, and has no effect on volume vessels, so it can promote venous return. At the same time, due...
Product Introduction:
Minoxidil HCL, which can be used alone or in combination with other drugs, is an orally effective direct acting peripheral vasodilator that reduces elevated systolic and diastolic blood pressure by decreasing peripheral vascular resistance, this vasodilation also increases the viability of hair cells or follicles. It is also used topically for the treatment of androgenetic alopecia and the main site of action is the arteries without venodilation.
Features:
1. Minoxidil HCL is a potassium channel opener that directly diastens vascular smooth muscle and has a powerful small arterial dilating effect, causing peripheral resistance, vasodilation and a decrease in blood pressure, while having no effect on the volumetric vessels, thus promoting venous return.
2. It increases cardiac output and heart rate without causing postural hypotension due to reflex regulation and positive frequency effects.
3. It stimulates hair follicles by improving good diastolic follicular vascularity and promotes circulatory hair follicle growth.
Usage：
1. for adults:
Oral, 2.5mg/time at first, twice a day, then double the dose every 3 days, and gradually increase until the curative effect occurs. The maintenance dose is 10-40mg per day, taken in single or divided doses. No more than 100mg a day.
2. for children:
Oral administration of 0.2 mg/kg per day according to body weight, once a day. After that, the dose should be adjusted every 3 days, and the body weight should be increased by 0.1 mg/kg every day, up to 50 mg a day under the age of 12. The maintenance dose is 0.25 to 1 mg/kg of body weight per day, taken once or in divided doses.
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Does minoxidil regrow hair?
Yes, But they go through a freak-out period, after which they start to grow hair
What can minoxidil be used for?
Blood pressure lowering drugs used for refractory, primary, or renal hypertension. It can be used to prevent fatty alopecia and animal husbandry
What are the dangers of minoxidil?
Can I use minoxidil for lifetime?
Does minoxidil regrow hair work?
Does minoxidil work permanently?
How long does minoxidil take to fully work?
What is the success rate for minoxidil?
What are the dangers of minoxidil?
Common ones are:
1. Reflex sexual arousal can cause rapid heart rate, arrhythmia, skin flushing;
2. Water and sodium retention causes weight gain and lower limb edema.
3. Hair hyperplasia, which affects the face, arms and back, usually appears within 3 to 6 weeks after drug use and subsides after 1 to 6 months after drug withdrawal. To reduce these adverse reactions should be combined with diuretics or beta-blockers.
Less common are: angina pectoris, chest pain (pericarditis), headache (dilated blood vessels).
Rare: allergic reaction, rash, itching.
Can minoxidil be injected?
No injection, only external application
Is minoxidil is a steroid?
Minoxidil is not a hormone drug. Minoxidil is a peripheral vasodilator that can stimulate hair growth in patients with male pattern alopecia and alopecia areata when used locally for a long time. Therefore, it can be used to treat male pattern alopecia and alopecia areata. Minoxidil is topical and should never be taken orally.
What are the benefits of using minoxidil?
Does minoxidil regrow hair?
Minoxidil is the only effective drug for external use with both FDA and NMPA certificates. It is an OTC drug for external use, certified by more than 200 countries and used by hundreds of millions of alopecia friends around the world. It has witnessed the effect for 30 years and proved clinically for 30 years to help hair regeneration
What are the dangers of minoxidil?
Minoxidil is a kind of antihypertensive drug. Its common side effects include rapid heart rate, arrhythmia and skin flushing caused by reflex sexual arousal, and weight gain, lower limb edema and hair hyperplasia caused by water and sodium retention, especially in the face, arms and back. It usually appears in 3-6 weeks after taking the drug and can disappear after 1-6 weeks after stopping the drug. Minoxidil can prolong the growth period of hair and increase the size of the tiny hair follicles. Most hair loss is due to the damage and atrophy of the hair follicles. Once it is closed, it will never grow new hair.
With the increase of life pressure, many male patients have begun to appear hair loss. Therefore, many people are using minoxidil to treat hair loss. Some patients have dry, desquamate, itching and redness in the application site. In the treatment of hair loss, sudden withdrawal of medicine will also cause hair loss, so it is advisable to withdraw medicine gradually. Less common adverse reactions include angina pectoris, chest pain, headache, allergic reactions, rash, pruritus, etc.
Can minoxidil damage heart?
Minoxidil is has certain side effects, some patients after taking will show the heart beating fast, arrhythmia, so for people with heart disease, coronary heart disease patients can't take, still can make hair on the body increased significantly, especially in the face, arms and back is obvious, there is still a rare show of angina pectoris, or an allergic reaction
Does minoxidil require a prescription?
Minoxidil tincture is not prescribed.
