Medications That Change Your Skin and Hair: The Complete Guide
A great many skin and hair problems that get blamed on age, stress or a bad routine are side effects of a prescription. Medications change skin through a handful of mechanisms: they alter hormone signalling, they make skin absorb ultraviolet differently, they shift the hair growth cycle, they dry mucous membranes, and they change how quickly tissue repairs. The effects are usually delayed by weeks or months, which is why the connection gets missed — by the time hair is shedding or skin is burning at twenty minutes, the drug that caused it started a season ago. Nothing here is a reason to stop a medication. It is a reason to recognise the pattern and take it to the person who prescribed it.
