Do nasal steroids like rhinocort prescribed for allergies make or cause hair loss worse?
It shouldn’t, unless you are using the medication for a long period of time at high doses and have the genes for hair loss.
2007-12-27 08:34:422007-12-20 09:30:59Nasal Steroids and Hair Loss
A nasal spray that blocks the absorption of the coronavirus completely protected ferrets it was tested on, according to a small study released Thursday by an international team of scientists. The study, which was limited to animals and has not yet been peer-reviewed, was assessed by several health experts at the request of The New York Times.
If the spray, which the scientists described as nontoxic and stable, is proved to work in humans, it could provide a new way to fight the pandemic, with a daily spritz up the nose acting like a vaccine.
“Having something new that works against the coronavirus is exciting,” said Dr. Arturo Casadevall, the chairman of immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, who was not involved in the study. “I could imagine this being part of the arsenal.”
The work has been underway for months by scientists from Columbia University Medical Center in New York, Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands, Cornell University and the University of Campania in Italy. The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Columbia University Medical Center.
The spray, which attacks the virus directly, contains a lipopeptide, a cholesterol particle linked to a chain of amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. This particular lipopeptide exactly matches a stretch of amino acids in the spike protein of the virus, which the pathogen uses to attach to a human airway or lung cell.
Before a virus can inject its RNA into a cell, the spike must effectively unzip, exposing two chains of amino acids, in order to fuse to the cell wall. As the spike zips back up to complete the process, the lipopeptide in the spray inserts itself, latching on to one of the spike’s amino acid chains and preventing the virus from attaching.
“It is like you are zipping a zipper but you put another zipper inside, so the two sides cannot meet,” said Matteo Porotto, a microbiologist at Columbia University and one of the paper’s authors.
The work was described in a paper posted to the preprint server bioRxiv Thursday morning, and has been submitted to the journal Science for peer review.
Ferrets are used by scientists studying flu, SARS and other respiratory diseases because they can catch viruses through the nose much as humans do, although they also infect each other by contact with feces or by scratching and biting.
The protective spray attaches to cells in the nose and lungs and lasts about 24 hours, Dr. Anne Moscona, a pediatrician and microbiologist at Columbia and co-author of the study.
“If it works this well in humans,” she said, “you could sleep in a bed with someone infected or be with your infected kids and still be safe.”
2020-11-06 07:25:442020-11-06 07:26:07Nasal spray could prevent Covid 19
I was wondering if you could answer a question for me. I am a 26 y/o male who is very much into working out (running, weight training, etc). Unfortunately, I am in the beginning stages of MPB as well. I really have changed my whole life around to maintain the hair I have. That being said, I am very cautious about what I put into my body. I came across a supplement at GNC called naNOx9. I was wondering if you knew anything about this supplement, and if so…will it accelerate my hair loss or is it completely healthy? The ingredients are listed below….if you could answer this question for me I would really appreciate it. Dr Rassman, thank you for creating this blog…..I have gained much knowledge about hair loss that I would not ever know otherwise.
Serving Size 3 Caplet(s)
Servings Per Container 60Amount Per Serving % DV
naNOx9 3520.00 mg **
L-arginine*-xanthinol nicotinate **
L-arginine-ketoisocaproic acid-yohimbine HCl **
** Daily Value (DV) not established
Other Ingredients: hydroxpropryl cellulose, Silica, Artificial Flavor, Magnesium Stearate, Microcrystaliline Cellulose, Croscarmellose Sodium, Polyvinylpyrrolidone, vegetable stearine, coating (Polyvinyl Alcohol, Polyethylene Glycol, FD&C Red #40, Talc, Titanium Dioxide, FD&C Blue #2)
Here is the link to the product as well:
https://www.gnc.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2486356&cp=2348700.2325087&parentPage=familyThanks again Dr. Rassman!
Sorry, I do not know of naNOx9. For that matter, I don’t even know how to pR0noUNcE it. The list of ingredients are substantial and I can not attest to how one ingredient impacts another. You have to have faith in the product and the manufacturer and can not just look to a website for such assurance.
I’ll quote myself from a previous blog entry: Millions of dollars are spent on marketing supplements to a health conscious society and it gives a skewed perspective on our health and subliminally gives us the message that we need to take these extra supplements to make us better (lose weight, grow hair, increase our sex drive, build muscle, feel happy, get smarter, reverse aging). As long as things are not done in the extreme and it seems to help, there is nothing wrong with taking supplements. There is no hard medical science supplied which would support the majority of the claims.
2006-11-27 13:36:382010-07-16 08:31:56naNOx9 Supplement and Hair Loss
What are your views on nanogaine?
Nanogaine’s active ingredients are Superoxide Dismutase, Capilecti, and Lo-Seb, but there is no proof that this substance works on hair regrowth or even prevention of hair loss.
any thoughts on nandamo? sample size of this study seems low. Nandamo Clinical Research
I agree with you. This is a Chinese study and the results probably are not statistically meaningful. I give the researchers an ‘A’ for trying.
2006-02-09 15:32:292006-02-09 11:37:54Nandamo for Hair Loss
Hello, I am currently a 20 years old male, with extremely fast paced MPB in the front region. There is no extreme history of MPB in my family, although my dad and his brother are both above 50 and both thinning.
Anyways, my question is, my father has miatonic dystrophy, which of course is a genetic disease effecting muscles. I have never been tested for the disease, however I was looking up symptoms and one was listed as possible frontal hair loss at an earlier age due to hormone changes. My dad of course, did not experience this. I had just got a prescription from a dr for proscar, and was wondering IF this was the case, would there even be a point to taking it? I write to you because none of the physicians I’ve seen seem to know what they are talking about.
Hair loss in the great majority of men (especially frontal hair loss that occurs in a specific pattern) is due to genetics. It does not matter if your father or uncle didn’t see male pattern baldness until their later years, as the gene can also come from your mother and can even skip generations.
Though myotonic dystrophy can cause hair loss, I am a bit worried if none of the physicians can explain this to you before you were prescribed a medication to treat genetic hair loss in the first place. Was your doctor not aware of your family history?
2013-11-07 12:01:112013-11-06 12:46:55Myotonic Dystrophy and Hair Loss?
I am a 55 and my wife is 45. She wants to do a face lift and is pushing me to look into it as well. I feel that I am too young to get a face lift and that it is a better surgery for a woman than a man. Are we too young for a face lift? Is it better to undergo a surgical procedure (i.e., facelift) at a younger age when the skin elasticity is better or at an older age when everything hangs down lower?
My feeling is that one should only undergo surgery when one is excited by the prospect of change and feels that he or she will benefit maximally from the procedure (physically and emotionally). Feeling compelled to have a facelift at an earlier age is ill-advised. The key is to get a good doctor and bond with him/her to help you decide if this is the right decision for you at this time. More and more men are getting facelifts today and the results can be as dramatic as the results we get on women.
This question was answered by Jon Perlman, M.D.
2006-05-24 08:36:062006-05-23 15:31:02My Wife Is Pushing For Me To Get a Facelift
Recently my wife became pregnant. I currently take minoxidil and am wondering if I am putting her (and the baby) at risk by sharing the same bed, incidental contact, etc.
Thanks for your help.
You can use minoxidil even if your wife is pregnant. So go ahead and push those beds together and be near your wife.
Your wife (or any woman) should not use minoxidil directly while pregnant, though. See Minoxidil and Pregnancy for more on that.
Dear Sir, My wife is 1 month pregnant . She is alopecia patient & complete bald since at the age of 5 years old. Her 2 other sister are also bald and having the same disease. They all wear wigs.. But her parent is having full grown hair.
My worries is that will it affect our future children ? Will my future child inherit this disease from her mother. how can i be assure for that. What test can be done to confirm it. Please advice.
Regards
Alopecia totalis sounds like the diagnosis and in one form of inheritance, the problem starts appearing in the very young at between 3-4 years old. Once the process starts, all of the hair falls out within months. Angela Christiano, Ph.D., of Columbia University in New York researched this in a town in Pakistan where the population was inbred. She found that many of the children in that town lost their hair at ages 3-4 and it fell out in a distinct pattern. She took samples of their genes, and tested them at the university, finding a connection between their disease and some of the genetic patterns in our more common form of alopecia areata, a disease which she has. Your child may very well inherit the condition. See our previous post on this subject here.
2009-01-28 14:36:312009-01-26 15:36:23My Wife Has Alopecia — Will Our Children Have this Disease, Too?
My wife and I caught dengue in Thailand 3 months ago. She started having rapid hair loss two weeks ago and we jokingly said it was probably dengue (it’s a running gag, since that damn thing hit us with a good dozen different symptoms). Joke’s in us; it’s actually dengue. Apparently it’s common to have it happen 2.5 to 3 months down the line. Anyways, I read on it and it’ll apparently go on for a couple months.
In women who have hair loss following a severe illness, a significant telogen effluvium develops and usually reverses in a year or so. In men, if they have genetic balding, they can kick in the genes and then follow their family pattern that is inherited and it could be that it would not reverse in men unlike women who often do reverse. I would expect similar responses to those people who caught Covid-19 Virus and got very sick but as our office is close, we will not see them for some time.
2020-04-22 02:16:052020-04-20 17:48:07Dengue fever 2 months ago and lost hair
