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Hair: Removal and Growth

The only effective way to remove hair permanently is with electrolysis a process by which hair roots are destroyed with an electrified needle. Electrolysis should only be performed by a physician or professional electrologist, according to the American Medical Association (AMA). While it is safe when done correctly, it can be tedious, painful and expensive, the AMA adds. Scarring may result and regrowth is possible.

Effective means of temporarily removing hair include shaving, tweezing, waxing, and using cream or lotion depilatories. But FDA cautions that there is no risk-free method of removing hair. Waxing for example can be painful, and creams can cause rashes and swelling.

There is limited good news about removing hair, however. According to the AMA hair removal does not make renewed growth thicker or stiffer, nor does it quicken regrowth.

While girls struggle to remove hair, some teenage boys worry that they won't be able to keep theirs. Since most baldness is hereditary, young men may take a look at their long-since bald fathers and fear that they will soon be watching the tops of their heads get smoother. There's currently no solution to this dilemma, a fact that bothers quacks not at all. The health fraud artists are ready with a variety of cures for baldness and their intended victims include those worried youngsters.

The would be hair restorers are trafficking these days in a drug that has shown some ability to stimulate hair growth. That drug is minoxidil, which is used to treat high blood pressure. Publicity about the prescription drug's link to hair growth has laid just enough ground work for the quacks to capitalize on. However minoxidil has yet to be approved by FDA for growing hair. So there remains no product available that will grow hair, despite quack ads to the contrary.

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Source:
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
FDA Consumer
February 1988, Revised April 1990
Department of Health and Human Services
Public Health Service
DHHS Publication No. (FDA) 90-1147
www.cfsan.fda.gov

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