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How to get rid of facial hair growth in women?

A set of hormones produced by the human endocrine system is responsible for the sex of the body. An increase in the quantitative ratio of estrogens - androgens in the direction of estrogens, gives femininity to the body, is responsible for the roundness of the female body, for the growth of the mammary glands, the possibility of pregnancy, lactation, etc. The presence of a small amount of androgens and a significant amount of estrogens inhibits the growth of facial hair, chest, arms, legs.

With a quantitative shift of hormones towards androgens, the body acquires male characteristics: the development of the skeleton according to the male type, an increase in muscle mass, a low timbre of voice, hair growth on the face, legs, arms, chest, back.

Due to certain circumstances in a woman's body, the quantitative ratio of male and female hormones may be disturbed, androgens are produced in slightly larger quantities, which leads to the phenomenon of hirsutism - excessive hair growth in those parts of the female body for which this is not typical - on the face, legs, arms , chest, back, abdomen. Hirsutism can manifest itself to varying degrees and is limited only by excessive hair growth, but in difficult cases with hirsutism, the sexual functions of the female body are also disrupted: the regularity of the menstrual cycle gets lost, infertility develops, ovarian hypertrophy, and uterine bleeding may occur.

The causes of hirsutism lie in the chemical effect of hormones on the growth of vellus hair (soft and unpigmented) in androgen-dependent zones. Such hair begins to turn into coarse, long, pigmented hair.

Increased secretion of the hormone androgen (hyperandrogenism) may be associated with disorders of ovarian function due to the development of polycystic ovaries, dysfunctions of the thyroid gland, adrenal cortex (adrenal tumors, adrenal hyperplasia), the work of the pituitary gland and hypothalamus.

Hirsutism can be genetically determined by the presence of genomic features in several generations.

Hirsutism can be the result of drug therapy - taking corticosteroids, anabolic steroids, androgen preparations and other drugs that provoke the production of androgens.

Often, hirsutism manifests itself during the period of hormonal disorders (shifts) in the work of the endocrine system, due to the age-related characteristics of the body.

Hirsutism is a gynecological and endocrine woman's health problem.

Hirsutism can be most troublesome in the case of facial hair growth (above the lip, in the chin area), which women consider as a cosmetic defect and strive to combat excess hair growth.

To get rid of the growth of facial hair, a woman needs to diagnose endocrine disorders, gynecological diseases, to carry out, in consultation with a doctor, the abolition of drugs that are potentially androgen stimulants. Getting rid of overgrowing hair begins with the treatment of identified diseases. Treatment of hirsutism can take a long period (up to a year) and will stop the growth of new hairs, but not already grown ones, which can be removed with the help of cosmetic procedures, which are also used for hirsutism of unknown etiology. In these cases, you can get rid of excess facial hair with the help of photoepilation (destruction of the hair follicle using heat flux), depilation (mechanical pulling of hair).