All You Need To Know About Vitiligo treatment

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Vitiligo is a disorder in which white patches of skin appear on various parts of the body. This happens because the cells that make pigment (color) in the skin are destroyed. These cells are called melanocytes.

Skin may look more even after the treatment. The type of treatment which should be done depends on various factors like:

1. The number of white patches
2. How widespread the patches are
3. The treatment the person prefers to use.

Some treatments are not right for everyone. Many treatments can have unwanted side effects. Treatments can take a long time, and sometimes they don’t work. Treatment options available for vitiligo treatment in west delhi include medical, surgical, and other treatments. Most treatments are aimed at restoring color to the white patches of skin.

Medical Treatment:

Corticosteroids: Topical steroids are often first-line therapy, especially in children. Moderately potent to potent topical corticosteroids are used. However, vitiligo requires prolonged use of these agents, ...
... often much longer than the usual "safe" recommended periods of use for inflammatory dermatomes. This results in significant, therapy-limiting side-effects like atrophy, hypertrichosis, peri-lesional hypopigmention etc.

Phototherapy: Phototherapy is one of the oldest forms of treatment of vitiligo. There are different types of psoralens like 5-MOP (bergapten), 4, 5, 8-trimethylpsoralen (TMP) and 8-MOP (methoxsalen), among these 8-MOP is the used most commonly. Topical psoralen photo chemotherapy (PUVA) is often used for people with limited disease. It is also used for children 12 years and older, who have localized patches for vitiligo.

Surgical Treatment:

If light therapy and drugs didn't worked for you, then Surgery may be an option. Surgery can also be used with those therapies. The aim of the following techniques is to even out your skin tone by reviving color.

Skin grafting: In this procedure, little sections of your normal, pigmented skin is removed and attached to areas that have lost pigment. This procedure is sometimes used if you have small patches of vitiligo.

Blister grafting: In this procedure, using suction blisters are created on your pigmented skin. After that top of the blisters are removed and transplants them to an area of discolored skin. Possible risks include scarring, a cobblestone look and failure of the area to recolor. With this procedure, the risk of scarring is less than with other types of skin grafting.

Tattooing (micro pigmentation). In this technique, a special surgical instrument is used to implant pigment into your skin. With people having darker skin, it's most effective around the lips. Issues like difficulty matching the skin color, the tendency of tattoos to fade and their inability to tan may occur.

Adjunctive Therapies

Depigmentation: Depigmentation is a more drastic form of treatment, when vitiligo is extensive. Depigmentation involves fading the rest of the skin on the body to match the already white areas by using permanent melanocytotoxic agents such as Môn benzyl ether of hydroquinone cream (Benoquin; ). The major side-effect includes irritant dermatitis but rarely limits therapy. A more recent method of depigmentation utilizes topical 4-methoxyphenol (4-MP) and the Q-switched ruby laser.

Sunscreens: People who have vitiligo are more susceptible to sunburn and long term photo damage. To prevent sun-induced darkening of the surrounding normal skin, broad spectrum high protection factor sunscreens (SPF15-30) which provide protection from both UVB and UVA light should be used.

Cosmetics: Camouflage is often used to "cover" affected areas. This may be practical for patients that have minimal disease or segmental disease. Many brands of dyes Dermacolor; (Kryolan) and Derma blend; (L'Oreal) are available in India.

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