Hair loss and blood pressure medication shares a deep bond! Don't raise your eyebrows, because Minodixil, the medication for treating baldness was originally used to treat high blood pressure.
It is a drug for treatment of high-blood pressure is now used to treat androgenic alopecia, inherited loss of hair and other types of hair loss.
The Story Of The Strong Bond Between Hair Loss And Blood Pressure Medication
Mino dixil is a vasodilator and was used as oral drug Loniten for treating high-blood pressure. But mino dixil showed interesting side effects on hair growth and showed signs of reversing baldness.
Upjohn Corporation in 1980s made a topical solution containing 2% mino dixil under the brand name Rogaine in the US for treating baldness. Outside United States the brand name is Regaine. For treating men a 5% concentration solution is used and for women 2% concentration solution is used. Rogaine is a hairloss medication approved by FDA. The active ingredient of Regaine, minodixil, which was originally a drug for treating hypertension or hbp, was tested as a topical application for regrowing hair and came up with good results.
However how mino dixil stimulates hair growth is still unknown. Mino dixil contains a blood vessel dilator, structure of Nitric Oxide (NO) and perhaps a nitric oxide agonist. This may be the answer to how mino dixil causes hair growth and stops hairloss.