Pictures : Vitiligo on Face, Around Eyes and Lips

Vitiligo on Face, Around Eyes and Lips
Vitiligo is nothing but loss of skin melanin, that is skin color pigment. Due to the internal immunological process, skin may lose color anywhere including any part of the face.

For cosmetic and social reasons, patients with vitiligo always have a concern of spreading vitiligo on the face, the most visible area, as it can affect the self-esteem of the person.
Medically speaking, a random, single spot of vitiligo on one side of the face is not very difficult to treat, unless it affects lips or corner of the lip or the corner of the eyes; what is typically called as muco-cutaneous junctions; which makes the treatment difficult.

If one has vitiligo around both the eyes, again, that brings one in the ‘difficult to treat’ category, as ‘bilaterally symmetrical vitiligo’ is more difficult to show results.
In our experience at Life Force, over seven thousand cases, for one to develop symmetrical patches, there must be a strong genetic factor. That is, someone in the family must have suffered with one of the auto-immune diseases such as vitiligo, under-active thyroid, alopecia, diabetes or cancer. Many times, the patient may not be aware of such family history.

If one has lips affected with vitiligo, it is better to accept this situation and the treatment should be targeted at controlling further spread rather than curing it; as this variety is very difficult to treat. Camouflage or tattooing is a suggested treatment for it.

Vitiligo around both eyes is difficult to cure completely. However, we have documented some cases with partial or significant success at Life Force, if not all.
There is no specific treatment or medicine to prevent vitiligo on any specific part of the body such as the face. The treatment can try to control the underlying disease process whereby controlling the spread of vitiligo in general.

Single or a few, not too large, vitiligo spots on face can find good results.

Vitiligo On hands

Vitiligo on hands Pictures and Treatment

Vitiligo on hands (including back of palms, palms, fingers and finger-tips)

Vitiligo can appear on any part of the body where there is skin. The patients having vitiligo on hands are more conscious as it draws attention of people, especially in social and professional interaction. Some people having vitiligo on hands find it a bit uncomfortable shaking hands. Those involved in public appearance including teachers and speakers might feel awkward while talking in public especially holding a microphone in hand.

Is vitiligo on hands different than elsewhere on the body?

Well, vitiligo anywhere on the body results from loss of melanin pigments on skin. It is the same phenomenon if one has vitiligo on palms.
Vitiligo on finger-tips:

Vitiligo on the finger tips falls under the category of what is called as Muco-cutaneous junctions, the area where skin meets with mucus- membranes.

Any difference in the chances of recovery?

Yes, when it comes to the treatment of vitiligo which affects the finger-tips, the chances of recovery are less or none.
Vitiligo on back of the palm is not that difficult to treat, but a bit more difficult than the spots on some softer parts like abdomen. Vitiligo on the fingers (not on the tips) can see improvement with certain treatment.
Vitiligo on palms can improve to some extent; may not recovery completely in all cases.


Of course, there are variations in the results depending on individual cases.

How to treat vitiligo on hands?

We have figured out through many years researches that Vitiligo has close relation with immune system, antibodies against melanin, predisposing factors, network activity of neuraminidase, genetic and other factors,so,we gotta figure out the trigger first, and then We use the latest development of Integrated Chinese and Western medicine with advanced large-scale medical equipment at the same time according to the trigger, this treatment is called SOD6+1. Clinical use effect is pretty obvious.

My vitiligo was started when I was 14 ,How to Cure

My vitiligo was started when I was 14. So many times I've tried to find a good cure or just a cure! And about 8 mouth ago I found something called Vitilemna and I thought that it will help me and it does! I used the pill Vitilemna and gel Vitilemna and I started getting results from the 5th month! Treatment is designed for 6 months. The results are quite good for now! I can't believe it! Maybe this cure isn't so cool for everybody but I think that everyone can try to use it.
The vitamin or trance elements are the expressions of the disease, there are many causes can cause the disease such as infection, gene, environment and environment. So only supllement such things can't cure the disease. There are many recovry cases of children vitiligo patients. Some of the patients with more severe conditions. The disease didn't get preper therapy, so it spreads. The good news is your daughter didn't spread.
How to Cure Vitiligo

Our hospital apply SOD 6+1 blood removing white patches to cure the disease from a permanent aspect. We use mixed laser therapy and TCM(traditional chinese medicine) which is safe and reliable, for the medicine are herb medicine coming from the nature. The disease usually has the repeated episodes feature, that because the blood is polluted by the IL and other toxin substances in blood, usually we can controle and improve the symptoms, the blood toxin can't be removed, the disease will occur again. That is our hospital's work, we also use the common thearpy and the mixed laser therapy, and we use the TCM to remove the toxin and prevent the recurrence of it. About two weeks hospitalization, you can go home with medicine to get further step of medication to prevent and there are obvious effects on skin. what i said, you can just think about it.

Diagnosis of Vitiligo

For Vitiligo disease in a large number of studies, it has been found that vitiligo patients have a variety of laboratory abnormalities, although most of these abnormalities are nonspecific, but has a certain reference for study of diagnosis and treatment and pathogenesis of this disease.
1. Blood tests
Vitiligo do before treatment or treatment of some blood tests are necessary from which to identify potential abnormal or visceral lesions, identify the cause, can improve the cure rate is conducive to the rehabilitation of vitiligo.
(1) blood gas analysis: pH value measurement, 100 cases of vitiligo patients compared with the normal 100 cases, vitiligo average of 7.3650, the normal average of 7.3888, blood pH slightly lower than normal in patients with vitiligo.
(2) blood: Many vitiligo patients had measured blood anemia, leukopenia and thrombocytopenia.
(3) immune abnormalities: Vitiligo patients have been found to exist in a variety of serum autoantibodies, including thyroglobulin, antithyroid microsomal, anti-gastric parietal cells, anti-adrenergic, anti-smooth muscle, anti-cardiac, anti-insulin, anti-platelet and anti- nuclear antibodies, the positive rate ranging from vitiligo patients with serum anti-melanocyte cell surface protein found antibodies from 8.2% to 50%, of this disease is important, but with normal skin as a substrate indirect immunofluorescence assay positive rate low, using cultured melanocytes as a substrate, using a modified indirect immunofluorescence assay or immunofluorescence complement fixation method, immunoprecipitation, Western blot positive rate much higher, up to about 50% to 80%, it has been reported serum immunoglobulin G, immunoglobulin M, immunoglobulin A increased compared with the normal complement (C3), serum total complement activity (CH50) decreased helper T cells (TH) reduced or increased, auxiliary T cells and suppressor T cells ratio change, the patient intradermal tuberculin test, phytohemagglutinin (PHA) skin test and lymphocyte transformation test showed low phenomenon occurs, there are about serum soluble interleukin -2 receptor (SIL-2R) increased levels of coverage that these circumstances do before treatment or treatment of some blood tests are necessary, may find abnormalities or potential lesions in vivo, further identified for possible The reason to do symptomatic treatment, can improve the cure rate is conducive to the rehabilitation of vitiligo.
2. Trace Elements
Through the 100 cases of patients with vitiligo hair and normal hair Copper 100 cases compared to the average of vitiligo patients 8.6898μg / g, normal is 10.0703μ / g, t-test P value less than 0.05, indicating that patients with vitiligo and low copper is closely related to, the detection of zinc, tin, manganese and normal no significant difference, other lower serum copper oxidase activity, increased serum monoamine oxidase, serum ceruloplasmin increased, in addition to reports of chromosome aberrations, patients with microcirculatory disorders It reported.
3.Wood lamp examination
Wood lamp to determine pigmentation nuances of great help, melanin absorb the whole band ultraviolet light, if melanin reduction is strong refraction, which was light, while the refractive weak increased melanin, which was dark, Wood lamp can be used to check the depth of melanin in the skin, such as checking epidermal pigmented lesions (such as freckles), when radiation can darken pigment, and intradermal pigmentation does not have this reaction, thus can determine the location of melanin in the Wood lamp, vitiligo changes in skin pigment obviously much in visible light, but changes in the Wood lamp dermal pigment is not obvious.
Auxiliary examination

In addition to the number of basal layer of vitiligo pathology melanocytes and melanin granules decreased or disappeared, in general, there is no inflammation, vitiligo basal cell layer of melanosomes and melanocytes decrease or lack of, in the activity of damage, the center melanocyte density around at the abnormal increase of melanocytes, is at the edge of the area two to three times the normal area in the earlier inflammatory phase can be observed skin edema and sponge called Vitiligo is formed at the edge of uplift, leather the visible infiltration of lymphocytes and histiocytes, major change has been the formation of vitiligo damage within melanocytes melanosomes reduce or even disappear, reportedly Langerhans cells may have increased, normal or redistribution, there is some evidence that the entire epidermis - melanin unit is damaged, no melanocytes late decolorization lesions, the use of special staining and electron microscopy is no exception, by ultraviolet radiation skin visible reactive hyperkeratosis, early upper dermis also saw a bite of pigment cells inside epidermal melanocytes at the margin of the lesion pigmentation increase melanosomes, silver staining and electron microscopy unit peripheral nerve lesions have degenerative changes, dopa-responsive inspection, complete leukoplakia almost see melanocytes, without completely type only see few melanocytes, and its response is weak, the relevant circumstances are described below.

Eye Color and Vitiligo

Eye color may help predict risk for vitiligo, an autoimmune disease in which the skin loses its pigment, a new study finds.

The study of nearly 3,000 non-Hispanic Americans of European descent found people with blue eyes are less likely to have vitiligo. Researchers also identified 13 new genes that may predispose people to the condition, which often results in uneven patches of white skin and hair.

About 27 percent of people with vitiligo had blue/gray eyes, compared with 52 percent of Americans of non-Hispanic European descent without the skin condition. Meanwhile, 43 percent of people with vitiligo had tan or brown eyes, compared with 27 percent Americans of non-Hispanic European descent. About 30 percent of the patients with vitiligo had green or hazel eyes.

Although the study focused on vitiligo, the researchers noted their findings could shed light on how eye color may help predict people's risk for melanoma. People with brown eyes are at lower risk of melanoma.

"Genetically, in some ways vitiligo and melanoma are polar opposites. Some of the same genetic variations that make one more likely to have vitiligo make one less likely to have melanoma, and vice versa," Dr. Richard Spritz, director of the Human Medical Genetics and Genomics Program at University of Colorado School of Medicine, said in a university news release. "Vitiligo is an autoimmune disease, in which a person's immune system attacks their normal pigment cells. We think that vitiligo represents overactivity of a normal process by which one's immune system searches out and destroys early cancerous melanoma cells."


Since people with vitiligo are at greater risk for other autoimmune diseases, such as thyroid disease and type 1 diabetes, the study's authors concluded their findings could help scientists learn more about the genetic basis for these diseases as well.

Vitiligo Signs and Symptoms

Vitiligo is a chronic disorder that causes depigmentation in patches of skin. It occurs when the melanocytes, the cells responsible for skin pigmentation which are derived from the neural crest, die or are unable to function. The precise pathogenesis, or cause, of vitiligo is complex and not yet fully understood.

The most notable symptom of vitiligo is depigmentation of patches of skin that occurs on the extremities. Although patches are initially small, they often enlarge and change shape. When skin lesions occur, they are most prominent on the face, hands and wrists. Depigmentation is particularly noticeable around body orifices, such as the mouth, eyes, nostrils, genitalia and umbilicus. Some lesions have hyperpigmentation around the edges. In regards to psychological damage, vitiligo can have a significant effect on the mental health of a patient. Psychological stress may even result in an individual becoming more susceptible to vitiligo. Patients who are stigmatised for their condition may experience depression and similar mood disorders..
Non-segmental vitiligo

In Non-segmental vitiligo (NSV), there is usually some form of symmetry in the location of the patches of depigmentation. New patches also appear over time, and can be generalised over large portions of the body, or localised to a particular area. Vitiligo where little pigmented skin remains is referred to as ''vitiligo universalis''. NSV can come about at any age, unlike segmental vitiligo which is far more prevalent in teenage years.

Is Vitiligo Contagious?

As you learned on the previous page, vitiligo appears because the body can no longer produce melanin. It is not caused by a germ or virus that can be transmitted from one person to the next, so the condition isn't contagious. In fact, vitiligo patients may feel isolated and alone simply because of their looks. Avoiding them out of fear that you may catch the disease could add to their pain [source: Vitiligo Hospital ].
Lee Thomas, an Emmy Award-winning African-American television news anchor, understands the isolation and pain associated with having vitiligo. He first noticed white spots on his scalp more than a decade ago. Thomas said he hid his condition for as long as he could -- about four years -- because he feared other people's reactions to his appearance.
"And not only did I wonder if I saw a monster, I wondered did other people see a monster when they saw me, especially when kids cry when they see your face," Thomas said in an interview on the ABC news program 20/20 . Thomas went on to say that people would not shake his hand, and if they did, they would sneak away to wipe their hands as soon as they could.

Those fears are not necessary. Touching with someone who has vitiligo will not put you at any risk. And there is hope for those who have it. Read on to learn about treatments for the condition.