Rumors refuted: Washing your hair with birth control pills is not feasible to cure baldness

Recently, it has been reported online that grinding birth control pills into powder and dissolving them in water to wash your hair can promote hair growth. A man tried this "home remedy" to treat baldness. After a few months, his hair did not grow much, but his breasts grew significantly. He was so frightened that he rushed to the hospital.

Wu Xianghong, deputy chief physician of the Department of Gynecology at Beijing Guang'anmen Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that she has never heard of this treatment method for many years. "What is certain is that contraceptive pills contain a large amount of estrogen. If too much is absorbed through the scalp when washing hair, it will cause the development of male secondary sexual characteristics in a feminized manner," Wu Xianghong said. "There are many reasons for thinning hair, including too much male hormones. It’s just one of them. It’s very blind to use birth control pills to wash your hair or oral contraceptive pills to treat hair loss.” She suggested that people with thinning hair should find out the cause and prescribe the right medicine.

In addition, contraceptive pills are hormonal drugs, which must be taken systematically and regularly and checked regularly, and cannot be taken indiscriminately.