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My daughter started using cholestyramine for mold and is getting a lot of hair loss. Could it be the cholestyramine?
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I'd talk to her doctor. That's a significant symptom that we discount. Maybe the cholestyramine is absorbing minerals and causing hair loss because of mineral deficiency ... at least that's what comes to my mind about it. Many of those binders bind everything.
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I have had some hair loss in the time I have been on Cholestagel/Welchol, which is a similar drug....but it is very difficult to be sure whther it is the direct cause.
These drugs may lower your stores of certain nutrients like B12, even if you take the CSM at a separate time. B12, for example, is normally recycled for a while in the bile, but on CSM and Welchol, you are getting rid of some of that bile. Low B12 can cause hairloss, as can low levels of some other B vitamins, iron etc. Make sure too that she has enough stomach acid to help absorb thongs like B12.
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