How to Enhance the Immunity for Adolescent Patients with Vitiligo?

Vitiligo is a chronic skin disease with complex causes and difficult to treat. Many patients, especially adolescents and children, are suffering from it. Research shows that the immune system plays an important role in the occurrence and progression of vitiligo, so improving immunity is very important to help children recover from white patches. So, how can parents help improve their children’s immunity?

1. Conduct Moderate Exercise:

Physical exercise is one of the effective ways to improve immunity. However, for children with vitiligo, too often strenuous exercise should be avoided and exercise time should be arranged reasonably. Moderate exercise can promote blood circulation and enhance the body's resistance.

2. Eat a Balanced Diet:

Partial eclipse, anorexia or unbalanced nutrition can lead to decreased immunity. In order to improve immunity, parents should encourage their children to maintain a comprehensive and balanced diet, consume appropriate amounts of nutrients, and ensure three regular meals.

3. Have Good Sleep:

Adequate sleep can promote the improvement of the body's immune function. It can increase the number of white blood cells and activate macrophages, thus enhancing the body's immunity.

Is Vitiligo on The Hand Difficult to treat?

 

Can Vitiligo Patients Still Eat Vitamin C, Spicy Food, or Seafood?

After suffering from vitiligo, everyone is more concerned about what you can and cannot eat, so today I will talk about it again.

I. Should We Eat Fruits and Vegetables High in Vitamin C?

It is said online that people with vitiligo cannot eat foods containing vitamin C. Is it really true that such as oranges, tomatoes, and kiwi berries cannot be eaten?

Patients with vitiligo do not need to avoid vitamin C. Appropriate consumption of foods containing vitamin C can assist in the treatment of vitiligo in reality. Vitamin C is the main antioxidant free radical substance in the body. As a coenzyme of oxidoreductase, it participates in the body's redox process and plays an important role in promoting digestive function and maintaining skin and nerve health.

II. Should We Avoid Spicy Food?

Are there any dietary restrictions for hot pot and barbecue? Can we eat spicy ingredients in daily seasonings, such as onions, garlic, peppers, mustard, etc.?

Eat as little oily and spicy food as possible. During the recovery process of vitiligo, spicy and irritating foods can cause body "Heatiness" (Shanghuo), a symptom in Traditional Medicines Theory. In addition, patients with sensitive skin may experience redness and itchiness, and in severe cases, skin allergies may occur.

It is very detrimental to the recovery and treatment of vitiligo. If it is in the development stage, it may also cause the white spots to spread. Therefore, it is best try to avoid eating spicy and irritating foods.

III. Can Fish, Shrimp and Seafood be Eaten?

Eat fish, shrimp and seafood selectively. The reason why marine fish, shrimps and crabs are harmful to vitiligo, is because the heterologous protein they contain may become allergens and cause the recurrence of allergic diseases.

Freshwater fish such as grass carp, black fish, herring, crucian carp, and carp are edible. Shellfish (oysters, raw oysters, clams, mussels, snails) are rich in copper elements needed by patients with vitiligo, and can also be eaten in moderation.

IV. Final Tips:

Vitiligo patients do not need special dietary restrictions, as long as they eat a balanced and healthy diet.

If a certain value is abnormal after professional examination, you can follow the doctor's advice and eat properly.

What is important in the treatment of Vitiligo?

Many people in the society have a certain discrimination against vitiligo patients. This requires patients to calm down. You must know that there are definite cases that prove that vitiligo can be cured. So what is the most important time in the treatment of vitiligo?

1.Choose a good hospital and doctor

Vitiligo has a long course of treatment, and a professional and responsible doctor is very important to patients during the treatment process.

The doctor will formulate a feasible treatment plan according to the patient's condition. All the patient has to do is to follow the doctor's advice and actively cooperate with the treatment.

2.The period of vitiligo during treatment

Vitiligo in different periods has different treatment difficulties and methods. With the in-depth development of vitiligo, the difficulty of vitiligo treatment will gradually increase. In the early stage of vitiligo, white spots just appear, which is the best time to treat vitiligo.

In the late stage of vitiligo, the melanocytes are almost extinct, and the difficulty of treatment is greatly increased at this time. Therefore, patients must seek medical attention in time!

3.Develop good living habits

In the treatment of vitiligo, it is very important to maintain the stability of immunity. The enhancement of immunity is closely related to the patient's maintenance of good living habits.

There are many factors for the onset of vitiligo, including the instability of the immune system, so we must pay special attention to it.

In addition, family members, as the closest people to the patient, should always pay attention to the patient's emotional changes, and help the patient to clear up and resolve negative emotions in a timely manner.

Vitiligo is a chronic disease, and it cannot be cured overnight, it needs a certain buffer time. Therefore, when treating vitiligo, patients are required to keep in mind the principles of treatment and maintain physical and mental pleasure and health.

Vtiiligo Treatment by Beijing Zhongke Vitiligo Hospital in 2023

Vitiligo is a long-term condition where pale white patches develop on the skin. It's caused by the lack of melanin, which is the pigment in skin.

Vitiligo can affect any area of skin, but it commonly happens on the face, neck and hands, and in skin creases.

If vitiligo is severe or making you unhappy, you may want to consider treatment.

The white patches caused by vitiligo are usually permanent, although treatment options are available to reduce their appearance.Vitiligo has brought a lot of troubles to patients' life, work, study, making friends and so on.

Vitiligo treatment in beijing zhongke vitiligo hospital

For different patients, Beijing Zhongke Vitiligo Hospital, experts give professional assessment and treatment combination plan:

Chinese medicine treatment: medicated bath, traditional Chinese medicine fumigation, traditional Chinese medicine ointment, traditional Chinese medicine

Western medicine treatment: injection, oral medicine, ointment

Physical therapy: various optical therapy instruments (fraction laser, 308nm excimer laser, 7001, 7002, 236B, half-cabin, etc.)

Surgical treatment: skin epidermal grafting, non-cultured autologous epidermal suspension grafting.

Why 308nm excimer laser therapy can treat vitiligo?

What is 308 excimer laser treatment for vitiligo?

In clinic, 308 excimer laser treatment for vitiligo is very useful and effective for vitiligo treatment. And in many countries, 308 laser treatment is a common therapy for vitiligo. 308nm excimer laser is one kind of excimer laser, meaning Xecl excimer laser. It belongs to continuous pulsed gas laser. The wavelength is during the range of UVB, and the pulse width is usually 10-30 ns.

Nowadays, the causes and pathogenesis of vitiligo are still not clear yet. There are many hypothesis to explain various clinical manifestation of different vitiligo patients.

Why 308nm excimer laser therapy can treat vitiligo?

Its therapy mechanism may be related to T lymphocyte apoptosis. Bian2chi and other people have researched by using immunohistochemical method that 308nm excimer laser can clean up the infiltrative T lymphocyte at lesion positions. Novak and others have researched that 308nm excimer laser can promote the activated T lymphocyte at vitiligo lesion positions apoptosis. The treatment effect is quite obvious, even more obvious than NB-UVB’s ability to cause apoptosis.

After 308 laser irradiation, it can lead to Tlymphocyte apoptosis, thus making the vitiligo lesions disappear not only from naked eye levels, but also making the structures recover to be normal on micro level. Vitiligo is characteristic by selective melanophore, it may relate to patients’ autoimmune response. Narrow band ultraviolet( NB-UVB) may have immunomodulatory effects to make human cells and body fluid generate immunity, which can help to stabilize depigmentation progress. Besides, NB-UVB has been widely identified as similar as PUVA(psoralen photochemical therapy), which can stimulate remained melanophore to gather around peripheral hair follicle outer root sheath. Melanophore can go on mitosis, the generation and movement of melanin, always be induced by various cytokines and inflammatory mediator, including interleukin, tumor necrosis factor α, leukotriene C4. Recent researches indicate that after UVB irradiation, various cytokines and inflammatory mediator will increase, which indicates that this is on mechanism of UVB inducing the restore of melanin.

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