At a Glance
Package: Hair Fall Test Package for Men. Tests: 68 parameters, 16 components. Price: From 1999. Fasting: Not required. Sample: Blood, single draw, morning slot preferred. Reports: 24 hours, digital. Home collection: Free across Greater Noida. Lab: NABL-accredited. Sixteen components is the longest test list of any concern-specific package we publish, and all of it runs off one venous draw. The systemic base — iron, thyroid, vitamins, minerals, liver, kidney, inflammation, autoimmune — is shared with the Hair Fall Test Package for Women. The hormone section is not: this version carries Dihydrotestosterone DHT, Free, Testosterone Total and Sex Hormone Binding Globulin, none of which the women's package contains. ## Sixteen Components, One Doorstep Visit Greater Noida is spread out, and collection centres are not distributed as densely here as in the older parts of NCR. For a panel this size, that distance is usually what decides whether the test happens at all. A student around Knowledge Park 1 without transport, or someone in Alpha 2 or Omega 1 who has been meaning to get the shedding looked at since it started, is weighing 68 parameters against most of a day. Nothing here needs fasting, and a phlebotomist at your door in Beta 1, Delta 2, Gamma 1 or Gaur City takes one sample and leaves. The trip is the part we remove; the panel itself is unchanged. ## Blood Picture - Peripheral Smear Examination A qualified pathologist prepares a slide from your sample and reads it under a microscope, cell by cell. No analyser does this, so the cost is pathologist time — the line item dropped first to hold a price point. Five findings are reported: Red Blood Cells, White Blood Cells, Platelets, Hemoparasites, and a written Impression. You order it here for the red cells: microcytic, pale cells for iron deficiency, the commonest nutritional cause of diffuse shedding; macrocytic cells for B12 or folate deficiency; sickle-shaped cells for sickle cell disease. But one slide is read across all three cell lines, and that is the part nobody pays for twice. The white cells are examined for blast cells that may indicate leukaemia. The platelets are checked for clumping, which automated counters report as a dangerously low count. And Hemoparasites looks for malarial parasites, which is no formality in Delhi NCR, where dengue and malaria are endemic and a fever illness is itself a common trigger for shedding. ## The Lag You Are Reading Against Hair loss with a systemic cause is usually telogen effluvium: many follicles leave their growth phase together, but the hair sheds roughly two to three months later. The blood test therefore describes a cause that began months before you noticed anything, which is useful anyway, because the deficiency behind it normally persists. Male pattern hair loss works over years instead, through follicle sensitivity to DHT at the temples and crown, and the two can run together. ## The Androgen Group Dihydrotestosterone DHT, Free (1): the androgen that miniaturises scalp follicles in male pattern hair loss, and the hormone finasteride and dutasteride suppress. Testosterone Total (1): the precursor, and a measure of androgen status. Sex Hormone Binding Globulin (1): the carrier protein that decides how much testosterone is biologically free, so it changes how a total value reads. Pattern hair loss is largely inherited follicle sensitivity to DHT, not a high circulating DHT, and men with textbook androgenetic alopecia usually have normal androgens. These tests exclude an endocrine abnormality and set a pre-treatment baseline. They do not confirm or rule out pattern hair loss, which is a clinical and trichoscopic diagnosis. ## The Other 12 Components Iron Studies (5): Serum Iron, TIBC, UIBC, Transferrin, % Iron Saturation. Ferritin, the most sensitive single iron marker in hair loss, is not in this profile; a doctor may add it. CBC with ESR (21): anaemia, infection, inflammation. Thyroid Profile (3): TT3, TT4, TSH — both underactive and overactive thyroid cause diffuse loss, and one in ten Indian adults is hypothyroid (Unnikrishnan et al., IJEM, 2013;17(4):647–652). Active Vitamin - B12 (1): holotranscobalamin, the fraction cells can take up, rather than total B12, which can read normal while the usable share is low; 47–70% of Indians are deficient, over 70% among vegetarians (Yajnik et al., JAPI, 2006;54:775–782). Vitamin D (25-Hydroxy) (1): under 20 ng/mL deficiency, 20–30 insufficiency (Endocrine Society, 2011); Indian prevalence 40% to over 90% (Ritu & Gupta, IJCM, 2014;39(4):178–184). Zinc Serum (1), Magnesium (1): required for keratin synthesis. 21-Deoxy Cortisol, serum (1): a steroid precursor used in assessing adrenal enzyme pathways; specialist interpretation only. C-Reactive Protein - CRP Quantitative (1): inflammation in mg/L, so repeat values compare; standard CRP, not hs-CRP. Anti Nuclear Antibody (ANA) (1): screens for autoimmune disease such as lupus, which can scar follicles permanently, but is positive in a meaningful share of healthy people and needs clinical interpretation. Liver Function Test (12), Kidney Function Test (12): chronic liver or kidney disease thins hair. ## Sources Unnikrishnan et al., IJEM, 2013;17(4):647–652 · Yajnik et al., JAPI, 2006;54:775–782 · Ritu & Gupta, IJCM, 2014;39(4):178–184 · Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline, 2011 · NFHS-5, 2019–21 Content last reviewed: October 2026
