Effect of minoxidil on normal healthy hair follicles? Will those hair follicles also become dependent on minoxidil?

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Do minoxidil effects healthy hair follicles also, those follicles which are normal, so if someone start using minoxidil for hairfall, and after using it for few months, will those Normal healthy hair follicles also become dependent on minoxidil? Then after stopping minoxidil use, will those normal healthy hair follicles also start hair loss and make your condition worse then it was before starting minoxidil? Do normal hair follicles also become dependent on minoxidil?

Ilhan Serdaroglu, MD · Answer

If you stop to use minox for thining hair because of AGA after a long time usage, you may experience a fast thinning, even loss of hair because of ending action of active ingredient. That phenomena leads people to a misconception that minoxidil hair loss after  stopping to use it. But minoxidil will not effect your "normal" native hair.

Jeff Donovan, MD, PhD · Answer

No, a normal hair does not become dependent on minoxidil. However, a normal hair that 'wants' to become a miniaturizing hair in the future and STAYS normal on account of the minoxidil can be lost when minoxidil is stopped.

Karl Hekimian, MD · Answer

If you use minoxidil for a period of time and then stop, you will lose the benefits that you have gained and it will be like you had never used the product.  However, you will not be any worse off than you would be if you had never used minoxidil.

William Rassman, MD (retired) · Answer

Minoxidil will not make normal terminal hairs dependend upon this drug. Read the inserts in the minxoidil package

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