What would you say about this drug?

[basil_555]

My doctor advised me to take Tricoxen, which is an Italian product for treating male pattern baldness. It includes Tricoxen lotion (needs to be rubbed into the skin of the head once a day) and a dietary suppliment. Suprusingly, these drugs are sold only in Italy. Here is the list of ingredients for both of them:

Tricoxen dietary supplement:

protein - 0.363g
carboidrati - 0.170g
grassi - 0.553g
l-metionina - 0.250g
vitamin e - 15mg
niacin - 27mg
ubichinone - 20mg
rutin - 10mg
seleno - 0.020mg
serenoa repens - 0.050g

Tricoxen lotion:

Pyridinol Carbomate
Panthenol
Pyridoxine
Nicatinamide

My question is: Will that stuff do any good in treating MBP?
It is very expensive (around $150 a month) and is manufactured by an Italian company called "IDI Pharmaceuticals".

 

[Boru]

My doctor advised me to take Tricoxen, which is an Italian product for treating male pattern baldness. It includes Tricoxen lotion (needs to be rubbed into the skin of the head once a day) and a dietary suppliment. Suprusingly, these drugs are sold only in Italy. Here is the list of ingredients for both of them:

Tricoxen dietary supplement:

protein - 0.363g
carboidrati - 0.170g
grassi - 0.553g
l-metionina - 0.250g
vitamin e - 15mg
niacin - 27mg
ubichinone - 20mg
rutin - 10mg
seleno - 0.020mg
serenoa repens - 0.050g

Tricoxen lotion:

Pyridinol Carbomate
Panthenol
Pyridoxine
Nicatinamide

My question is: Will that stuff do any good in treating MBP?
It is very expensive (around $150 a month) and is manufactured by an Italian company called "IDI Pharmaceuticals".

Seronoa repens = saw palmetto, which may have some effect on the 5 alpha reductase enzyme conversion of testosterone to DHT, but in my view only in conjunction with the more powerful finasteride 1mg. The other ingredients in this Trixoxen are mostly vitamins and ordinary supplements, and you don't need to spend $150 a month, just get the saw palmetto tincture from a pharmacist or high street shop, warm your scalp, rub some in. I believe that it helped me to grow vellus hairs after a few months. However, saw palmetto is a controversial subject, as many dodgy products include it, with outlandish claims. It takes time to regrow hair, but I am doing it, using everything under the sun which makes sense to my limited scientific knowledge. Learning every day. I think it is shameful if your doctor has recommended something that has does not have any clinical trials, as this looks like a food supplement, it doesn't need FDA approval.
Boru

 

[basil_555]

Thank you very much for your help, Boru!

 

[Britannia]

Hi. The only ingredient in the dietry supplement that could do your hair some good is the Saw Palmetto. There is certainely some evidence for its use, although I think it would probably work better as a topical. Its used in Revivogen this way. Anyway that $150 is a complete rip-off. You can buy Saw Palmetto from any good health shop, I believe Holland and Barrat sell it here in the UK for about £3 ($5) for two months supply.
The lotion you mention contains nothing that to my knowledge will help hair loss BUT the Panthenol is a key ingredient in many hair conditioners. It deeply moisturises hair and makes it thicker, shinier and stronger. Panthenol can be found in most hair condioners, which cost as little as £1 a bottle!! So again this makes the $150 look like a rip off. Call me a bit scepital but it seems to me that the manufacterers of this stuff want you to take the Saw Palmetto, then use the Panthenol to instantly thicken your hair up and you think "Wow these pills really work! Look how thick my hair is after one day!"
If you would like to use Saw Palmetto and Panthenol in your hair loss regeime you could get them for about $5 a month as opposed to this products $150.

 

[basil_555]

Call me a bit sceptical

Britannia, I too am VERY skeptical about this treatment. It is such a pity, that I've lost almost 2 months using it with no chances that it will help, while my male pattern baldness progressed dramatically. Well, I hope that at least Panthenol did something good for me...