What’s the influence of vitiligo on human physiology and psychology?

vitiligo symptomWhy people are so scared of the onset of vitiligo? The main reason is the strong damage of the stubborn disease so that the disease will cause great damage to patients’ physiology and psychology. So patients should pay attention to these damages and then to get scientific treatment.

So what are the influences of vitiligo on human physiology and psychology?

First, the damage on physiology:

1. The skin lesion resistance ability will get worse: The lack of melanin will weaken the skin’s ability to defense ultraviolet ray. Researches have found that vitiligo patients have a higher skin cancer occurrence rate than normal person.

2. It can induce various diseases: such as photosensitivity dermatitis, pernicious anemia, pelada, psoriasis, malignant tumor, rheumatoid arthritis, cataract, concurrent hyperthyroidism and other serious disease.

Second, the damage on psychology:

1. Psychological self-abasement: It appears to social contact difficulty. And patients are always worried about being discriminated, estranged or refused. When they talk with other people, they dare not to see people in their eyes. Dare not to go swimming, to gymnasium or barbershop and etc. What’s more, they will feel shy, agitated and afraid to be discussed. They are afraid of other people’s view.

2. Psychological fear: After the onset of skin disease, patients may have some fiction speculation of the disease. Or they will worry about its influence on marriage and descendant.Thus,they will get extremely worried, feel uneasy even when eating and sleeping and then get hypertension. Even worse, lead to sexual dysfunction and influence the marriage.

3. Lead to the change of personality: They may get nervous, irritable ,subconscious hostility to their parents, too sensitive on feeling,unstable on emotion and abnormal sexual behaviour. Parts of the patients may fell deeply hopeless and even generate the thought of suicide.

Therefore, vitiligo needs scientific treatment:

Patients with vitiligo will not only get damage on physiology, but also they will get bad mental condition. The key for vitiligo treatment is the early diagnosis and early treatment.Because plenty of practices find that in the early stage of vitiligo, the treatment will be much easier. The incipient vitiligo will get disappeared completely after half one month to two months’ treatment. It is because in the initial stage of vitiligo, patients still remain melanin cell that have not been destroyed completely. We call these incomplete vitiligo. In this stage , patients can get the best treatment effect. At the same time, initial vitiligo has small area and surrounding melanin in normal skin can move the lesion place.It will also help to the recovery and shorten the course of treatment. However, if your vitiligo is more than one year, the treatment will be prolonged accordingly. Therefore, the key of vitiligo is early treatment and early diagnosis.

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.

vitiligo doctor liu yuntao
Dr Liu yuntao

Committed to vitiligo’s basic theory and clinical research for thirty years, he makes an effective countermeasures to solve the issues of vitiligo spreading and vitiligo relapse, makes hair mucosal site and skin color recover.

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