Vitiligo Creams - What Are The Best Treatment for Vitiligo

If you have new white patches on your skin that do not cover a large area, your GP may prescribe a corticosteroid (steroid) cream. This can sometimes stop the spread of the patches, and may restore your original skin colour.

Vitiligo (vit-uh-lie-go) causes the skin to lose color. Patches of lighter skin appear. Some people develop a few patches. Others lose much more skin color.
A trial of topical 0.1% tacrolimus ointment was begun for the face and eyelids in each of these patients. Many vitiligo patients used 0.1% tacrolimus ointment on their white spots,vitiligo Patients were allowed unprotected (no sunscreen) natural sunlight exposure at midday: 5 minutes in the summer and 10 minutes in fall, winter, and spring. They were instructed to apply sunscreens of sun protection factor 30 or higher at all other times.
Medicine applied to the skin:
Several different topical (applied to the skin) medicines can repigment the skin.
Prescribed for small areas.
The most commonly prescribed medicine is a potent or super-potent topical corticosteroid. About half, 45 percent, of patients regain at least some skin color after 4 to 6 months.
A topical corticosteroid may be combined with another medicine to improve results.
Topical medicine works best in people with darkly pigmented skin.
Topical medicines are most effective on certain areas of the body, such as the face. They are least effective on the hands and feet.
Not all topical medicines should be used on the face.
Drawbacks: These medicines have possible side effects, so patients must be carefully monitored. A possible serious side effect of using of a topical corticosteroid for a year or longer is skin atrophy. This means the skin becomes paper thin, very dry and fragile.

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How to Treat Vitiligo From Root Causes

I'm suffering from vitiligo almost 10 years. It is first seen in my legs ,arm and body.Now my vitiligo is spreading my face. Plz help me treatment my vitiligo, I very sad that because my leucoderma is spreading.

Ansewer:Before any treatment, you need to know what is the cause of your vitiligo. For example, genetic factor is one of the reason. In China, the genetic risk is very small. It may be caused by the abnormal phenomenon of a kind of autosomal dominant gene. But genetically, heredity is only one factor of vitiligo, and have other factors, it can lead to vitiligo.

Trauma is also one casues of leucoderma, such as surgery, scratch, injury, burns, hurt, frostbite, burn, sunburn, knife, mosquito bites. Therefore, people should correctly deal with the wound to avoid the onset of vitiligo on face, eye and eyebrow.

From leucoderma pathogenesis, it is because the disability of melanophore to generate melanin. Besides melanophore, there are still many other factors can affect the synthesis of melanin, such as tyrosine, tyrosinase, dopa, oxygen, copper,zinc, ultraviolet ray and etc. These factors can also lead to the onset of vitiligo on face, lip, eyelid, eye and eyebrow, trunk, legs and other positions.

What's more, leucoderma has relation with ourselves. Long-term mental pressure and negative spirit condition can lead to the disorder of body internal secretion, which can affect patients' normal study, work and social contact.

Therefore , you need to go to professional vitiligo hospital to do treamtent. Don't take medicines blindly.

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