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Hair loss is something that worries a lot of people. The average person should lose between 50 and 200 hairs per day.

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

If you are losing a lot more, you should check into it. It could be temporary hair loss, hair breakage, or permanent hair

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

oss.

Breakage
Let's take a look at hair breakage, which can be confused with hair loss. If you have very fine h

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

ir, it will break easily. Chemicals (such as perms) can wreak havoc on your fine hair and so can swimming in chlorinated wat

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

r. After you've brushed or shampooed your hair, pick up some hairs and look closely at both ends for a bump/"root". If you

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

an't find the "root", the hair did not full out but broke off. If you have more than 200 hairs falling out daily and they al

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

l have bumps at the end, then your hair is falling out much faster than the daily average and it bears checking into.

Sha

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

pooing
Another reason you might get more hair loss than 200 hairs per day is if you shampoo your hair only once a we

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

k. When you are scrubbing and washing your hair, you are dislodging all the hairs that are ready to be replaced. If you was

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

ed your hair every day, you would dislodge a few hairs daily, but will end up with the same total of hairs by the end of the

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

eek. It just looks like more when you shampoo your hair once a week because it all comes at once.

Temporary Hair Loss
ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a
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Temporary hair loss is a different matter all together. This is when you lose so much in such a short amount of time
dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod
hat it feels like you are going to go bald. Don't worry - if it's temporary, it will grow again and go through the 3
cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin
tages of hair growth, but it takes time. Why would your hair fall out so quickly? There are at least 6 possible reasons
tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

* Physical stress - such as major surgery, or high fever

* Emotional stress - from traumatic events such as rape, war,
t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel
r the loss of loved ones

* Child birth - hormonal upheavals that follow child birth usually cause hair loss

* Drugs
ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust
- from cortisones and amphetamines

* Hormonal disorders - especially having to do with the thyroid or sex glands

*
y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products
Diet - protein is necessary for hair growth

If you are experiencing hair loss, look whether there are bumps on the ends
.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de
f the hairs you are losing. If there aren't any, the hairs are just breaking off. If there are bumps and you can relate to
elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip
ne of the 6 reasons for temporary hair loss that are mentioned, be patient and the hair will slowly come back in again.

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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