#35557 - 08/24/06 04:00 AM
Unwanted hair growth article
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From member lagirl: "I found a very good article on all the possible causes of excessive hair growth, including medical conditions and medications. Maybe you can post this in a sticky on both LHR and Electrolysis forums. Can probably help some people determine what they have or IF they have something." http://www.pdrhealth.com/patient_education/BHG01EN13.shtml
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#35558 - 08/26/06 12:40 PM
Re: Unwanted hair growth article
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Hi Andrea, After reading through the article, it does present a very good overview of hirsutism in women, and for the most part, it is in line with other information I have on file as far as the root causes and treatments for excess hair growth. However, I did find 2 glaring errors as follows: Quote:
Use physical hair-removal methods. Contrary to popular belief, temporary hair-removal methods such as shaving, waxing, tweezing , and depilatory creams do not cause hair to grow back coarser and darker than the original hair.
The inclusion of tweezing and waxing as non-stimulating methods of hair removal are definately incorrect. Any electrologist who has worked on eyebrows that have been tweezed for extensive lengths of time will know exactly what I am talking about.
Outside of this, it is an excellent source of information, athough quite limited in the number and types of drugs that have the potential to affect hair growth.
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#35560 - 12/11/06 11:13 AM
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#47490 - 11/22/07 06:48 PM
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#48649 - 01/11/08 06:40 PM
Re: Unwanted hair growth article
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Hi Andrea, After reading through the article, it does present a very good overview of hirsutism in women, and for the most part, it is in line with other information I have on file as far as the root causes and treatments for excess hair growth. However, I did find 2 glaring errors as follows: Use physical hair-removal methods. Contrary to popular belief, temporary hair-removal methods such as shaving, waxing, tweezing , and depilatory creams do not cause hair to grow back coarser and darker than the original hair. The inclusion of tweezing and waxing as non-stimulating methods of hair removal are definately incorrect. Any electrologist who has worked on eyebrows that have been tweezed for extensive lengths of time will know exactly what I am talking about. Outside of this, it is an excellent source of information, athough quite limited in the number and types of drugs that have the potential to affect hair growth. Joanne Wait, so do you mean that waxing and tweezing does cause hair to grow back darker and coarser? SOrry if this is a dumb question but I thought it didn't 
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#48653 - 01/11/08 07:19 PM
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Yes, it does cause hair to grow back thicker, darker, stronger, and in many cases, distorts the follicles so they don't even grow straight anymore.
In some cases, in places like legs, and eyebrows, the scar tissue can build up and cause the hair to stop growing, but in the overwhelming number of body parts, darker, thicker, coarser, gnarlier hairs are the norm.
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#48655 - 01/11/08 07:23 PM
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I agree, but I'm sure you will read and hear differing opinions on this subject.
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