Hair Loss Library - Common Drugs That Cause Hair Loss

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It is well known that many cancer chemotherapy medications cause baldness. Most people are willing to put up with hair loss when accepting treatments for life-threatening diseases, but a large number of popular medications can cause hair loss while neither pharmaceutical industry nor your doctor will tell you about this side effect.

Here we compile a list of drugs that are know to cause hair loss in some patients:

Cholesterol-lowering drug:

• clofibrate (Atromis-S) and gemfibrozil (Lopid)

Parkinson Medications:

• levodopa (Dopar, Larodopa)

Ulcer drugs:

• cimetidine (Tagamet), ranitidine (Zantac) and famotidine (Pepcid)

Anticoagulents:

• Coumarin and Heparin

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