Drop out. Heparin and Warfarin were first noticed behind this case.
Somewhere in 2000, hair loss was recorded for the first time after treatment with fashionable low molecular weight heparins. These are the same heparins that people have now bought up from pharmacies in a panic.
It turned out that heparin and similar drugs somehow do not work very well on the hair follicle. In the follicle, cells divide more slowly, and the apparatus that holds the hair weakens.
Now new direct anticoagulants for oral administration have also been suspected. All sorts of Xarelto, Dabigatrans and Eliquis.
Hair loss from these drugs occurs in about 4 cases out of 100 person-years.
What are "person-years"? Well, that's if 50 people participated in a scientific study, and they were observed for 2 years. Multiply 50 by 2 and get 100 person-years or patient-years.
More interesting facts emerge here. Earlier, when doctors had at their disposal simple unfractionated heparins and penny Warfarin, they were often said to provoke hair loss.
Then there were expensive low-molecular-weight heparins and all kinds of Xarelts. At first, hair also fell out from them, but over time, the references became less and less.
Some believe that profits from expensive new drugs affect the objectivity of those responsible for statistics. So we may not know the truth.
There are many different tricks like the fact that sometimes hair falls out quickly, but new ones grow quickly in their place, so nothing is noticeable.
Usually, about a month after stopping the medication, the hair will begin to grow back.
The moral of the story is this - do not take anticoagulants without a doctor's prescription.
