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Babies Diagnosed With Werewolf Syndrome Due to Parents' Baldness Medication
Babies in Europe have been developing hypertrichosis, more commonly known as werewolf syndrome, after their parents used an anti-baldness medication.The Pharmacovigilance Center of Navarre (CFN) in Spain discovered that 11 babies recently developed werewolf syndrome, linked to a caregiver's use of minoxidil, Spanish newspaper El País reported.Minoxidil is a medication approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that can be sold witho…
The Pharmacovigilance Center of Navarra detected 11 cases in which parents who used minoxidil and had a child with werewolves syndrome
The Centre for Pharmacovigilance of Navarre has warned that the occurrence of generalized hypertricosis in infants due to accidental exposure to minoxidil ‘is serious’ because ‘a person, who is not the patient, is exposed to a medicinal product from a vulnerable age group and in which the medicinal product is not indicated’. Thus, 11 cases have been announced, one of them in the Foral Community, of hypertricosis, known as ‘wolf syndrome’, in inf…
One study turned the alarms on in Spain, after it linked the drugs used to treat baldness to the "wolf syndrome" in babies. Medihair’s research found that Spain is the country in the world with the highest percentage of baldness, so thousands of people a year undergo treatments for the hair to grow again. One of the most used medicines in such treatments is topical minoxidyl. According to the Information Bulletin of Pharmacovigilance of Navarra …
At least 11 babies had excess hair growth, the so-called werewolf syndrome, and the common denominator was that their parents used Minoxidil to stimulate hair growth.
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