The Relationship Between Vitiligo with Seafood and Alcohol.

In clinical experience, some foods can indeed trigger or aggravate vitiligo, and frequent consumption of seafood and alcohol is also a trigger that cannot be ignored.

The studies of this clinical experience have found that people who consume seafood regularly, especially those who eat seafood and drink a lot of alcohol at the same time, have not only a high incidence of vitiligo but also have a more aggravated condition when having it. During clinical observation, there are patients who think that their onset is related to drinking alcohol and eating a lot of seafood. Some patients find that each time they consume seafood and drink alcohol, the white patches would expand or new ones would appear. Some patients would feel itchy in their white patches area after drinking alcohol. For patients who are engaged in the food service industry, reception work, or who can not quit drinking alcohol, their condition is often difficult to control, indicating that drinking alcohol and eating seafood has a close relationship with vitiligo.

It is speculated that the vitiligo mechanism may be related to neuro-endocrine-immune dysfunction caused by the neurotoxic effect of alcohol, or because of the damage to the liver during the metabolism of alcohol in the liver, affecting the metabolism of various substances, so that the body's nutritional disorders, and then lead to skin pigment metabolism disorders. The chances of seafood-induced vitiligo may be related to body metamorphosis.

In summary, its believed that the cause and pathogenesis of vitiligo is not a single factor, there are external factors and internal factors, in the process of the incident, may be dominated by a factor, but often a variety of factors caused by a combination of factors, generally speaking, external factors are the conditions of the onset, internal factors are the root of the onset. In daily life, people should try to avoid the risk factors in the external environment in time to control the susceptibility factors inside the body, for vitiligo prevention and treatment has important clinical significance.

Here, we suggest that the majority of vitiligo patients: scientific and reasonable dietary arrangements are vital, in daily life you should pay attention to the dietary taboos to prevent future vitiligo recur or make the original white patches spread, bringing greater harm to your condition.