What are the Dietary Considerations for Vitiligo Patients?

Having the right diet in your daily life would reduce the chance of recurrence of vitiligo and facilitate the treatment of the disease. There is a saying that food and medicine are from the same origin, which also means the boundary between food and medicine is not absolute. Having the right food combined with proper treatment could improve the condition, and eating too much wrong too could hinder recovery. Vitiligo patients should pay especially attention to their everyday diet.

1. Vitiligo patients should eat more eggplant, carrots, and green vegetables, as well as grapes, walnuts, apples, and other fruits (Fruits contains vitamin C is actually good for Vitiligo patinets in recent research)

3. Patients should also eat less red meat and spicy foods, they should eat more vegetarian food. Food such as meat, poultry, fish, and eggs contain high levels of saturated fatty acids, which raise the blood cholesterol levels in the body, increase blood viscosity and stasis, not beneficial for vitiligo control.

4. Vitiligo patients should eat more foods that are rich in tyrosinase, copper, and zinc. Tyrosinase activity can be enhanced with the involvement of trace elements such as copper and zinc, Patients can eat more animal offal, lean meat, soya products, and fresh vegetables.

5. vitiligo patients should quit smoking and alcohol. The nicotine, tar, and carbon monoxide in tobacco are highly toxic to many systems and organs of the body, which would decrease blood oxygen levels, reduces immune function, and even causes cancer.

Vitiligo is a persistent disease in dermatology. The right diet not only helps to supplement the patient's nutrition but also aids the treatment, so patients must take extra care of it, a diet under the guidance of a doctor should be followed to facilitate recovery.