Leg hairiness may be due to genetic reasons or excessive androgen.
1. Hereditary factors: When both parents or one of them have hairy legs, it is possible to pass it on to their children. This condition is harmless to the body and can be treated at the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, where the hair can be removed by laser.
2. Excessive secretion of androgens: Boys will have more leg hair due to excessive secretion of sex hormones during puberty, which is normal and needs no treatment. Girls if the leg hair increases, may be the body’s hormone secretion abnormality, need to go to the hospital to check whether the hormone abnormality, if necessary, you can take some ethinyl estradiol cyproterone tablets and so on to treat.
3. Long-term use of androgenic drugs: If long-term use of androgenic drugs such as testosterone undecanoate, will lead to increased leg hair, this situation should be under the guidance of the doctor to reduce the dose of drugs or stop.
It is recommended to go to the hospital to find out the cause of increased leg hair before specific treatment.