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Combining 5% spironolactone and 5% minoxidil is safe and more effective for treating hair loss.

Dermatologists should monitor potassium levels in women taking spironolactone for acne, hair loss, and hirsutism.

Monitoring potassium levels is important for women taking spironolactone.

Older women taking spironolactone for hair loss may need yearly potassium checks due to a higher risk of hyperkalemia.

Spironolactone safely and effectively treats hair loss in female scarring alopecia patients.

Topical spironolactone works better than topical finasteride for hair loss.

Combining minoxidil and spironolactone is more effective for female hair loss, but minoxidil alone is sufficient after 6 months.

Both minoxidil-spironolactone and minoxidil-finasteride treatments work for hair loss, but minoxidil-spironolactone is slightly more effective, especially in women.

Taking vitamin C and vitamin E twice a day can help prevent sunburn and DNA damage from UVB exposure.

Spironolactone treatment increases the amount of testosterone available in the body.

Certain medications including flutamide, spironolactone, and others effectively reduce excessive hair growth in women, especially when combined with lifestyle changes.

Spironolactone can reduce hair growth in women with hirsutism.

Anti-androgens, like finasteride, dutasteride, and spironolactone, may lessen the severity of COVID-19 in men, leading to fewer ICU admissions.

Excessive hair growth can be assessed by history, exam, and blood tests, and treated with medication like dexamethasone, birth control pills, and spironolactone.

Hormone therapies like birth control pills and spironolactone are safe and effective for treating women's adult acne.

For women with moderate to severe unwanted hair growth or acne, birth control pills are the first choice, with other medications like cyproterone, spironolactone, flutamide, or finasteride as alternatives, and permanent hair removal should be done with electrolysis or laser.

Hormone therapy with estradiol and spironolactone can regrow scalp hair in transgender women by lowering testosterone to female levels.

Androgen excess disorders in women were effectively treated with spironolactone, estrogen, and dexamethasone.

Hormonal therapies like cyproterone acetate and spironolactone may help some women with hair loss, but finasteride 1mg is not useful, and the effectiveness of other treatments is still unclear.

Combination therapy with oral contraceptives and spironolactone improves hair growth, menstrual issues, and acne in women with PCOS.

Spironolactone works well for acne and hirsutism, isotretinoin is very effective for acne and may have antiandrogenic effects, and 5 alpha-reductase inhibitors should be considered antiandrogens.