Gentlemen? Your hairdresser may shortly be able to recommend a drug that has already been FDA approved for Glaucoma, to help with your thinning barnet and treat male pattern baldness!
Glaucoma is regularly treated with either medicated eye drops, prescription medications or in severe cases laser surgery. The excess build up in the eye fluid in diagnosed glaucoma patients can lead to blindness.
The prescribed drug Bimatoprost is an active ingredient in Lumigan which is an approved treatment for glaucoma sufferers. Researchers discovered that one of the side effects to using this drug was that the follicles of hair around the eye were heavily stimulated and patients taking the treatment drug " Latisse" as a hair growth thickener for lashes were finding the lashes indeed to be growing. The Latisse drug is made from bimatoprose.
A new trial is now underway here in the UK to discover whether when isolated the drug can help in regrowing hair lost on the head. With FDA approval already granted for Bimatoprost it is hoped that permission will be granted once the trials are concluded to issue it as a treatment for hair loss sufferers.