what is vitiligo-4

Type:Uv phototherapy   Time:2017-05-12 14:49:42

Vitiligo lesions may rarely itch and have a high propensity to sunburn. Vitiligo is a chronic persistent and often progressive disorder; spontaneous repigmentation is uncommon and usually occurs around the hairs in a perifollicular pattern. Many patients are poorly educated about their illness. In one study, 51.3% of patients believed that their vitiligo was caused by poor medical care, 30% thought personal behavior played a major role, 25% - wrong diet, 21.3% - altered state of mind, and 20% blamed only pollution or environmental alterations. All the beliefs mentioned above are considered by the scientific community to be ¡°per se¡± unfounded and misleading, even if all of them may offer some true indications for understanding the disease and for finding the cure.

 

Vitiligo is a disease that presently cannot be cured, but still can be treated successfully with many different approaches. Its progression can be halted in almost 90% of cases with appropriate therapy, most frequently by combining different treatments. More than 75% of subjects affected by vitiligo respond satisfactorily to active treatments (medical or surgical).

 

Thus, it is not true that there is nothing that can be done for vitiligo. In fact, just the opposite is true.

 

Author: Prof. Torello Lotti, MD

 

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