What is the situation of androgenic alopecia in women?

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Androgenetic alopecia in women is also called male type alopecia in women. Its pathogenesis is due to excessive androgen, and heredity is also an important factor. The clinical manifestation was that the hair on the top of the head was gradually sparse, and the serum androgen level was higher than the normal level. It can be diagnosed. It can be treated with anti androgen agent cyproterone.

What is the situation of androgenic alopecia in women?

The medicine that the doctor prescribed to his friend is the antiandrogen preparation cyproterone, which should be taken orally on the 5th to 14th day of the patient's menstrual cycle, 100mg per day, and should be taken for three months this month. Then insist on taking this medicine, friends gradually feel less hair loss.

Then there is food therapy as well as drug therapy. That is to take the right amount of traditional Chinese medicine such as Cuscuta chinensis, Poria cocos, Shilian meat, black sesame, purple pearl rice, etc., put them into the pot, boil them with high heat, then add the right amount of water, cook them into porridge with low heat, and finally add a little salt. Once or twice a day for 10 to 15 days. My friend said that this prescription really stopped her hair loss and baldness.

The disease is rare and mild in men. 20% of white women, but 90% of all baldness. Alopecia is mainly located in the top of the head, and rarely involved in the temporofrontal region. The hair loss was diffuse, the course of disease was long, the top hair was gradually sparse, but there was no total alopecia on the top.

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According to the clinical manifestations, the hair on the top of the head is gradually sparse, and the serum androgen level is higher than the normal level. It can be diagnosed. It can be used as antiandrogen preparation, cyproterone, topical 0.05% diethylstilbestrol tincture or 2% - 4% progesterone tincture, or topical corticosteroid preparation.