Could Vitiligo Patients Drink Alcohol?

A lot of people like to drink, but it’s common to see cases where drinking alcohol causes vitiligo to occur or worsen. Potential vitiligo patients who have been drinking alcohol in excess for a long time will often develop vitiligo. Some outpatients can point out the causal relationship between their initial onset and alcohol consumption, and some patients complain that their white patches expand after each drink.

For patients who work in the food service industry, or who cannot stop drinking, their expansion of white patches is often difficult to control. The pathological mechanism may be related to the fact that alcohol consumption affects neuroendocrine function, damages the liver, and affects the absorption and synthesis of protein and zinc. In addition, vitiligo disease is caused by the death of pigment cells, and the cell membranes, nuclei, and mitochondria of the cells are directly affected by alcohol consumption and are damaged as a result of it. In addition, alcohol consumption can excite the sympathetic nerves, increase the heart rate, make people emotionally aroused, and indirectly secrete norepinephrine, which contributes to the death of melanocytes. At the same time, drinking alcohol can also cause microcirculatory disorders, so that the peripheral small veins dilated bruising, resulting in blood return obstruction, resulting in tissue cells ischemia and hypoxia and aggravating melanocyte damage, which would bring more harm to vitiligo patients.

Hence, we suggest to each vitiligo patient: scientific and reasonable dietary arrangements are crucial, and you should pay attention to dietary taboos in your daily life to prevent aggravating your condition and bringing more harm.