Hair loss or effluvium may be caused by emotional or hormonal cause. Hair loss may be quite embarrassing and sometimes, make it impossible for a person to maintain even an eye contact in society.
Baldness or effluvium refers to excessive hair loss from scalp. Some people prefer to let it run as it is. Others are very concerned about it and choose medical and surgical procedure for it. Most people shed almost 100 hairs a day. But in huge density of hair this hair loss is insignificant. The most common cause of hair loss is either hormonal or genetic. This condition runs in families and hence can be one of the stigmata of bald families. Sometime, skin infections reach the scalp and cause hair loss. Often thyroid problem is also reported as a cause of hair loss.
Following are the clinical features of hair loss: -Thinning of already present hair -Circular or bald patches -Full body hair loss especially in conditions of drug intake
Minoxidil is over the counter drug for prevention of hair loss. It comes in foam or liquid that is rubbed in scalp twice to help hair growth. It can take up to 12 weeks for hair loss to be repaired. Other than that, hair transplant is a better option which can repair it up to the mark without any interruption.
Several years of work in academia, medical practice and finally commercialization make it possible to provide an end-to-end process to help users to “find the appropriate medical help based on their present symptoms”. Below you will find a short explanation, showing you which part of the platform will help you best in finding the appropriate medical support.
Proceed as follows to enter your current symptoms.
Click on the appropriate body part on the picture. Select one/multiple symptoms corresponding to your complaint.
You can also add symptoms by typing your medical complaint in the search box and selecting the best matching suggestion.
Note: Your information will be kept anonymously.
Once you have selected all applicable symptoms, click the “analyze disease pattern”-button.
Accordingly, you will get a list of possible diseases and matching doctor categories who can further help you.
You can inform yourself about the possible diseases by reading the related information. But you can also return to the previous step and add more symptoms or delete already added ones to further narrow down your disease pattern.
Click on the desired doctor category to find a doctor who can help you.
If you are logged in with your profile, you will be displayed the appropriate doctors in your area. Otherwise you can enter an address in the “address” field and you will be displayed a doctor’s list around that specified address.
You will receive further information about the displayed doctors when you press on “details”.
Online bookable doctors in your area will be indicated with the notation “Book appointment” or “Book externally”, additionally they will be displayed on top of the list for your convenience.
Click on “Book appointment” to start the online appointment booking process with the desired doctor.
Please select an available appointment. “Green“ appointments are booked directly. “Red“ appointments need to be confirmed by the doctor.
Enter your general personal and health information.
Enter your present medical symptoms.
Enter your mobile phone number to identify yourself and you can finalize the appointment booking.
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