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What is Biotin?

Biotin is a vitamin found in small amounts in numerous foods. It is used for preventing and treating biotin deficiency associated with pregnancy, long-term tube feeding, malnutrition, and rapid weight loss.

Reported Purpose & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Purpose # of patients
# of patients with evaluations Efficacy
Major
Moderate
Slight
None
Can’t tell
General health 27 4 Efficacy_major Efficacy_moderate Efficacy_cant_tell
Hair loss 20 3 Efficacy_moderate Efficacy_slight Efficacy_cant_tell
Hair thinning 16 0
Other 6 0
weak nails 4 0
ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) 3 0

See all 84 patients currently taking Biotin

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Reported Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
 1
Moderate
 0
Mild
 0
None
 8

Reported Dosages

Frequently reported dosages based on patients currently taking Biotin. See all 36 dosages ►

  1 other daily 1 mg daily 2.5 mg daily 5 mg daily 15 mg daily 1,000 mg daily 1,000 mcg daily 2,000 mcg daily 5,000 mcg daily 5,000 mg daily
  2 Number of Patients: 2 6 Number of Patients: 6 12 Number of Patients: 12 9 Number of Patients: 9 2 Number of Patients: 2 7 Number of Patients: 7 7 Number of Patients: 7 2 Number of Patients: 2 8 Number of Patients: 8 4 Number of Patients: 4  

Reported Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Taking Biotin (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Other 4   Other: 33%
Did not seem to work 3   Did not seem to work: 25%
Expense 3   Expense: 25%
Doctor's advice 1   Doctor's advice: 8%
Side effects too severe 1   Side effects too severe: 8%
Course of treatment ended 1   Course of treatment ended: 8%

See all 12 patients who’ve stopped taking Biotin

Reported Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼

Currently Taking Biotin

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0

Stopped Taking Biotin

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0

Reported Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Adherence of Biotin

Always
 6 67%
Usually
 3 33%
Sometimes
 0 0%
Never
 0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Burden of Biotin

Very
 0 0%
Somewhat
 1 11%
A little
 1 11%
Not at all
 7 78%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

Cost of Biotin

$200+
 0 0%
$100-199
 0 0%
$50-99
 0 0%
$25-49
 1 14%
< $25
 6 86%

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Report created on May 27, 2012.