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Dermatology • Alopecia
What is your experience with using 5 alpha reductase inhibitors in females of childbearing age for androgenetic alopecia?
Dutasteride versus Finasteride
Answer from: at Academic Institution
I do not offer finasteride or dutasteride for patients of childbearing age. The risks outweigh the benefits. There are many other safe options available.
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Answer from: at Community Practice
I have avoided finasteride in young women with pattern alopecia, though low dose oral minoxidil has been safe/effective in several instances over the past year (for both pattern alopecia and chronic telogen effluvium in women of childbearing age).