Vitiligo is a pigmentation disorder in which melanocytes in the skin are destroyed. It is a common skin disease in India and affects about 2% of Indian population. As a result, white patches appear on the skin in different parts of the body. Similar patches also appear on both the mucous membranes (tissues that line the inside of the mouth and nose) and the retina. The hair that grows on areas affected by vitiligo sometimes turns white.
The cause of vitiligo is not known, but physicians and researchers have several different concepts. There is spowerful proof that people with vitiligo inherit a group of three genes that make them susceptible to depigmentation. The most commonly approved perspective is that the depigmentation occurs because vitiligo is an auto-immune disease. A disease in which a person's immune system reacts against the body's own organs or cells. Individuals systems generate necessary proteins called cytokines that, in vitiligo, alter their pigment-producing cells and cause these cells to die. Another theory is that melanocytes destroy themselves. Lastly, some people have revealed that a single event such as sunburn or emotional distress triggered vitiligo; however, these events have not been scientifically proven as causes of vitiligo.
Symptoms of Vitiligo
Vitiligo is classified by the appearance of depigmented patches (milky white) on the skin, common in sun revealed areas like hands, feet, arms, face and lips. Other typical places include armpits, groin, around the mouth, eyes, nostrils, navel and genitals. Hardly ever the areas display minor erythema, but as a rule they show only depigmentation and sensivity to light, the hair may be black or white but in a particular lesion, when hairy areas are involved the hair may turn white-colored.
Symptoms of vitiligo include an often rapid pigment loss on several areas of the skin. The initial appearance of the white patches can be followed by a stable period without any progression of the condition. Later on, further cycles of pigment loss and stability may be observed. Vitiligo can also affect the eyelids and hair.
Vitiligo Medical Treatments
Several treatment methods are available with varying success rate. The most commonly used is called PUVA therapy where in patient is given oral/topical psoralens followed by exposure to ultra-violet light. The success rate is limited & difficult areas like hands, fingers, feet, ankles and lips do not pigment.
Surgical treatment
This should be considered for patients in whom :
» Vitiligo has not changed over a period of one year.
» Failed medical line of treatment.
» No New hypopigmented patches should develop in this one year period.
» All wound should heal with normal pigmentation.
Ayurhealthline clinic, Delhi is one of the best skin clinic in India, provides various white patches treatments like Vitiligo Treatment in India,
» Topical steriod therapy
» Topical psoralen photochemotherapy
» Oral psoralen photochemotherapy
» Oral steroid therapy, Depigmentation
» Autologous skin Grafts
» Punch Grafts
» Autologous Melanocyte transplantation.
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