The Preparatory Work Before Treating Vitiligo

vitiligo wood light checkHere are many reasons causing vitiligo, such as trauma, infection,microcirculation disturbance, trace elements deficiency, chemical stimulation, melanin destruction, internal secretion and immunity function disorder and etc. By inspection, you can make it clear what is the pathogenesis of your vitiligo. If you treat your vitiligo without any check, the treatment will be blind and not scientific.

There are some kind of necessary inspections for vitiligo: wood light check, skin CT check, immunity function check, microcirculation disturbance check, trace elements check, blood analysis check and etc.

Wood light check is used to make a diagnosis for the onset of vitiligo. And it can also observe whether is some invisible potential white spots around vitiligo or not. After checking all the white spots, you can use some external medicines on accurate positions. The treatment will be more pointed.

Skin CT check is used to check the depigmentation degree on lesion positions. This check can help doctor to better observe the melanin depigmentation condition inside the skin. And it also can help to check whether your vitiligo is at development period or stability period.

Blood check aims at finding out the pathogenesis of your vitiligo. The main causes of vitiligo are immunity system disorder, pathological antibodies generation, trace elements imbalance, melanophore destruction, the relative deficiency of tyrosine and copper, spirit factors and etc.

Then, trace elements check will to find out the trace elements that you lack for. For example, copper, zinc and iron are quite necessary for your body. Copper ion deficiency can lead to tyrosinase activity decline. And tyrosine activity can affect melanin synthesis ability. Vitiligo patients can supplement food rich in copper, which will be beneficial for melanin generation.

Immunity function check can help to check about your immunity function. In daily life, you should pay attention to doing proper exercises to strength your body immunity.

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.

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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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