Male pattern baldness treatment in Pakistan

Male pattern baldness is the major cause of hair loss and badness in men all over the world. It can affect any man at any age of any race and ethnic group. In this condition, hairs start losing from the front and vertex region of the scalp. It needs fifteen to twenty five years for a man to go bald, but in most conditions within five years men lost all of their hairs. Causes of this disease are still unknown, but medical experts associate it with genetic and environmental factors. In medical dictionary, it is known as androgenic alopecia. It is found from various studies that release of DHT hormones in males cause this condition. DHT hormones shrink the hair follicles and affect their life span by shortening it. They also start damaging and deteriorating the follicles and make hairs fall from the scalp. Non surgical and surgical treatments are available to the patients suffering from this hair condition. In non surgical male pattern baldness treatments, various medicines are advertised and marketed over the print or electronic media. All of them claimed to restore hairs within some days and for the lifetime. Most of these medicines are useless and they can waste money and time of patient. Dermatologist advised to use only those medicines and treatments that are approved from the Food and Drug association of the United States. Two of these medicines are obtainable from the markets that are approved from FDA.

Minoxidil commercially known as Rogaine is one of these medicines that got approval from FDA for treating male pattern baldness. This medicine is available in form of an ointment and solution that is needed to be applied on the scalp. To achieve best results it is recommended that the solution must applied twice a day. This help in preventing further hair loss and hair restoration on the scalp. Another medicine is Finasteride that is marketed as Propecia is also helpful in treating male pattern baldness. This medicine is taken in form of a one milligram pill per day. It helps in treating the hair loss by balancing the level of DHT hormones in the body that cause hair fall in men. Some selective cases after hair transplant in Pakistan these medicines are also recommended. After a specific period of their usage, baldness can be treated effectively and good results can be seen. One of the main disadvantages of both medicines is that when the patient discontinued the use, he initially gets the same symptoms of baldness that he got before treatment. Not only the hairs start falling again, but patients also lose the hair that he got through the use of medicines.

Surgical hair restoration treatments are there to provide help to the patients who need male pattern baldness treatment. In hair transplant procedure, hair follicles are used to restore hairs back permanently. Hair follicles are harvested from the donor area of the scalp and after dissection it is transplanted to that area which is affected though male pattern baldness. The most important benefit of this method is that hair restoration is for whole life and transplanted hair follicles cannot be affected by any genetic or hereditary disorder.

Many options are available for Male Pattern Baldness Treatment, but the important is that to go to a dermatologist when a man is noticing an unusual hair fall. Those on early stages of baldness can get for medicinal treatment, but at the last stages no other option is left except surgery.