Minoxidil Hair Loss Discovery

The early and discovered use for Minoxidil was to treat high blood pressure. A side effect of people taking this drug was unwanted hair growth. Researchers and scientist then determined you could administer this drug to help treat hair loss. Minoxidil has grown quite a bit since those early years. It is no longer taken only in the oral form.

You can still find pills but the best results have been with hair loss treatments that administer 5% Minoxidil solutions topically directly to the scalp to help encourage new hair growth and stop hair loss or balding. Once you start taking Minoxidil and start seeing results, you can not stop taking it without risking losing the new hair growth.