Can vitiligo patients eat sugar?

We know that for vitiligo patients, there are many foods they can not eat, such as vitamin C and food containing too much C. As for fruit, they should avoid apple, orange, melon, grapefruit, papaya, strawberry, mandarin orange, orange and watermelon, zizyphus jujube. As for vegetables, they should avoid asparagus, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, mustard, pepper(red or green), potatoes, sweet potatoes and tomatoes and tomato juice. Besides, they should also avoid seafood, such as deep sea fish, shrimp, crab, clam and eat. It does not mean they can not eat. In daily life, they should eat less. These are some necessary common sense for vitiligo patients. Besides, there are more things for them to remember.

Many patients like sugar, especially for children vitiligo patients. But it maybe not good to eat too much sugar.

First, eat too much sugar will cause the deficiency of some vitamin, calcium, potassium. It is because the metabolism of sugar needs to consume various vitamin and mineral substance. Especially for children and elder vitiligo patients, eat too much sweet meet will increase the incidence of fracture. And vitiligo patients themselves are absent of some vitamin, so they should eat less.

Then, eat too much sugar will cause too much insulin secretion, and the metabolism disorder of carbohydrate and fat. Thus, making environment imbalance in human body. Eat sugar will arouse the possible recurrence of vitiligo. So, we suggest eat sugar less.

Besides, too much sugar will influence the absorption of calcium and relatively cut down the absorption of other nutritional ingredient, which will cause malnutrition and aggravate vitiligo condition.

Then, brown sugar is abundant of various vitamin and antioxidant substance. They can revolt free radical and protect the normal function of cell. But if there are too much free radical in vitiligo patients’ body, the melanophore will be damaged.

If you want a further knowledge about vitiligo causes, you can send your own problem to vitiligocure@hotmail.com and we will give you a professional solution. After all, the symptoms are similar, but the real conditions are different.To treat this illness,we need to find the authentic pathogenesis according to different conditions of different patients.