Protect Your Skin for Vitiligo Patients

The vitiligo patients can choose many treatments at hospital of home. And the home remedies may can’t treat your vitiligo, while it can improve you appearance. The home remedies are easy to apply. Now we know about some of the home remedies.

Keep your skin from sunlight and the artificail source of UV light. If you skin is light, and you also have vitiligo in same time, it is necessary to wear a broad-spectrum, water resistant sunscreen with an SPF at least 30. You should also use sunscreen generously and reapply every two hours, even more often when you are swing or perspiring.

The advantage is that it protects your skin from sun helps prevent sunburn and long term damage. A sunburn can let your vitiligo get worse. The sunscreen can also minimize the tanning, which will make the contract between discolored skin and normal skin less noticeable.

The affected skin should be concealed. Some concealing products may improve you skin appearance and help you feel better, especially your white spots are on exposed skin. You may have the interest to try different brands of makeups and self-tanning products that doesn’t wash off, while it can gradually fade over several days. If you want to use a self-tanner, you’d better choose one that coantains dihydroxyacetone, which is approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

Some of the patients may want to have a tattoo then the skin white spots will be covered. But the doctors don’t advice the patients to get a tattoo. That can only cover the white spots which is the symptom of vitilito. The disease is still there, so if you want a tattoo which only cover the white spots, but it is also with the risk to cause hometype response. The normal skin can also get vitiligo because of the stimulation of tattoo.

If you still have any problems about vitiligo, you can send us and leave you personal problems to us. The online doctors can also provide you advice and solution if you want to have a talk with them, you can send your problems to casuhospital@hotmail.com for help.