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Dutasteride Mesotherapy for Hair Loss
Dutasteride mesotherapy is a clinically effective treatment that helps improve hair density and arrest hair fall. It is quick, minimally invasive, and provides long-lasting results with no sexual side effects. It can also be combined with other hair loss treatments like PRP for enhanced outcomes. Now available at Almeka Medical Centre, Cochin.
Male or female, one of the most common complaints patients come to us with is hair fall and hair thinning. There are multiple reasons for hair loss, but if you are looking at male pattern hair loss or androgenetic alopecia, the main reason is the action of the hormone DHT on your hair follicles. This DHT hormone causes successive shortening of the anagen or growth phase of hair and reduces the size of your hair follicles, resulting in shorter and thinner hair. Other factors like poor nutrition, dieting, stress, viral illnesses, and thyroid disorders can aggravate this hair loss. Oral medicines like finasteride and dutasteride are very helpful in reducing the DHT level in your scalp, but they can also reduce your blood levels, causing unwanted sexual effects in many. To overcome this systemic effect and at the same time provide targeted treatment to your hair follicles, dutasteride mesotherapy has recently gained a lot of acceptance among patients.
Advantages of Dutasteride Mesotherapy
In this treatment, very low doses of dutasteride meso solution are injected into the scalp via tiny needles or applied on the scalp along with microneedling to specifically reduce DHT levels at the hair follicle. The treatment is quick and relatively painless when done after numbing the area. Multiple sessions are required for good results. The sessions are usually done once monthly for three months and then once every three to six months. This treatment can be combined with other hair growth treatments like PRP/PRF, growth factor concentrate, minoxidil, nutrient therapy, scalp threads, hair microneedling, and stem cell therapy for better treatment outcomes. Oral dutasteride is currently FDA-approved for androgenetic alopecia in only a few countries like Korea and Japan. Dutasteride is a much more potent inhibitor of DHT than finasteride and hence is more effective.
If you decide to take a drug orally, it has to pass through your gastrointestinal tract, be processed by your liver, and circulate through your bloodstream before it can reach your hair follicles. The main advantage of mesotherapy is that it acts directly on the area of the skin, without causing such side effects as sexual side effects, mood swings, weight gain, and breast enlargement, which can be observed when using oral androgen inhibitor tablets.
The hair cycle is a complex phenomenon requiring targeting various pathways involved in hair growth. For example, hair supplements help provide nutrition to the hair, minoxidil helps improve blood supply to the follicles, PRP and GFC provide natural growth factors that help stimulate growth, microneedling and LLLT help in direct stimulation of the follicles, and so forth. Dutasteride mesotherapy will help target the hormonal component seen in androgenetic alopecia. A combination treatment is always advised for the best outcomes.
The main areas that are usually treated include the vertex and the frontal area because the androgen receptors are sensitive to the DHT hormone. We can anticipate that the condition of the scalp will improve in regions where hair follicles are still present. The longer the period of hair loss and the smaller the size of the follicles, the harder it becomes to increase hair density. Any further delay can lead to irreversible fibrosis around the hair follicles which cannot be treated by any medical intervention. The main areas that are usually treated include the vertex and the frontal area because the androgen receptors are sensitive to the DHT hormone. We can anticipate that the condition of the scalp will improve in regions where hair follicles are still present. The longer the period of hair loss and the smaller the size of the follicles, the harder it becomes to increase hair density. Any further delay can lead to irreversible fibrosis around the hair follicles which cannot be treated by any medical intervention.
Women who have androgenetic alopecia or those with androgen excess can also be treated with dutasteride mesotherapy, especially those who have completed their family and are postmenopausal. However, it is not done during pregnancy and lactation.
This is a minimally invasive, quick treatment, and patients can wash their hair 12 hours after the treatment. Temporary discomfort like itching or headache may be seen in a few patients, but this subsides in a few days.
