his club has been fined over 60,000 American dollars

Yet another professional athlete has failed a random drug test because of his use of the hair loss medication Propecia. Rick Guttormson who plays for the Softbank Hawks that are part of the Japanese Pacific League but the claim that he had been using the hair loss drug for two years. Rick Guttormson has been suspended from professional baseball for twenty days and his club has been fined over 60,000 American dollars.

The testing athletes for drugs is meant to be to check whether they are using performance enhancing drugs which are not allowed in professional sports. The hair loss drug Propecia contains an active ingredient called finasteride that does not enhance performance in any way but is known to act as a masker for other performance enhancing drugs like steroids which are completely banned.

The Softbank Hawks baseball club said that they would be increasing theirmonitoring of what their players take in the way of medications to make sure that thiswould not happen again.

It is very unfortunate that the drug Propecia has to go on to the list of forbidden substances for professional athletes as it is such an effective hair loss drug. Many athletes are faced with a dilemma about whether to take Propecia and grow back their hair or whether to avoid it but go bald as a result.

At Ukmedix news we feel if professional athletes make a declaration that they are using the hair loss drug Propecia they should be allowed to use it subject to regular testing for other drugs. We find it hard to believe that the Propecia drug completely hides all traces of steroid or other performance enhancing drug use and it is unfair to ban athletes from using it.
Only last week an Italian golfer Alessandro Pissilli was found to also be using the Propecia hair loss drug and has been suspended from his game.