Oral Minoxidil; Safe Dose

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Oral Minoxidil; Safe Dose

Dose Reduction of Oral Minoxidil in a Responder

Dose reduction of minoxidil is often difficult for a responder who have already been treated with high dose minoxidil.

If someone is a responder to minoxidil, and if he has already been taking a high dose of minoxidil tablet, the current hair thickness depends largely on the effects of minoxidil.

Excessive hair shedding will begin, when he reduces the dose of oral minoxidil.
As the dose of oral minoxidil is reduced gradually, the effects of minoxidil will be lost.
Most of thick hair will go back to fine hair finally. Hair thickness will much decrease in 4-6 months.

Many responders to minoxidil cannot tolerate excessive hair shedding caused by the dose reduction of oral minoxidil. They are afraid that they might lose all of their hair.

They increase the dose of minoxidil to the previous dose again. In this way, they cannot stop or reduce the dose of minoxidil tablets.

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Kuniyoshi YAGYU, MD

General Manager, Ginza HS Clinic (current position) | Director, Ginza HS Clinic (current position) | Graduated from the University of Tokyo, Medical School.
Doctor of Medicine.

The 24th President of the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (ISHRS), a Board of Governors of the Asian Association of Hair Restoration Surgeons (AAHRS), a Fellow of the ISHRS, and a Diplomate of the American Board of Hair Restoration Surgery (ABHRS).

He has received many awards for his outstanding achievements in hair transplantation, including “Research Award” and “Special Achievement Award” from the ISHRS, “Mediterranean Award”, “Tiberio Award” and “Caesar Award” from the Italian Society for Hair Science and Restoration, and “Hirayama Award” from the Japan Society of Clinical Hair Restoration.

He is a certified registered physician of the Japan Surgical Society, an Honorary Fellow of cardiovascular surgery of the Japanese Association for Thoracic Surgery, a Fellow of the Japanese Circulation Society, and a Fellow of the Japanese Respiratory Society.

He served as a director of cardiovascular surgery at the Japanese Red Cross Medical Center, and an Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo, Medical School. He studied at the Hannover Medical School in the Federal Republic of Germany on a scholarship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Kuniyoshi Yagyu, MD, FISHRS. He served as the President of the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery from 2015 to 2016. He is a board member of the Asian Association of Hair Restoration Surgeons. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Hair Restoration Surgery and a Winner of the ISHRS Research Award in 2010, and ISHRS Poster Award in 2014. He has authored more than 53 research and clinical publications in books and journals. He had been specialized in cardiac surgery for 22 years. He has been practicing hair transplantation for about 20 years in Tokyo, Japan.