What are the Treatment Misunderstandings of Vitiligo?.

Due to the elusive characteristics of vitiligo, in the eyes of dermatologists, it is always a difficult opponent. People often see related advertisements in newspapers, magazines, and on utility poles everywhere. Claims that "highly effective drugs" can "cure white patches". There are also a lot of folk remedies and secret recipes that claim to be effective for vitiligo. In fact, this is impossible and unrealistic; the mysterious face of vitiligo with these false advertisements has led to many treatment misconceptions:

1. Unregulated use of hormones. The hormone has an obvious therapeutic effect, under the action of the hormone, pigment cells accelerate growth. However, the long-term topical use of glucocorticoid hormone can cause local skin atrophy, capillary dilation, acne, folliculitis, etc. Therefore, under the guidance of the doctor should intermittently, alternate the use of hormones to reduce adverse reactions.

2. Emphasis on "external" but not on "internal". Only topical medications are emphasized and oral medications are neglected. Vitiligo is caused by a variety of factors, external medicine is certainly important, and oral medication conditioning cannot be ignored. Otherwise, it is easy to treat the symptoms but not the root cause and relapse quickly after superficial improvement.

3. Emphasis on "treatment" but not on "prevention". Only pay attention to treatment, and ignore prevention. Some patients see the clinic regularly and take medication on time, but the white patches are still not controlled. When analyzing the reasons, it is often found that these patients have a partial diet, too much tension in their studies, family worries, disappointment in love, and other factors.

4. Excessive treatment, some patients think that the elimination of white patches will be able to achieve the purpose of the cure, in fact, on some of the white patches sites, melanocytes have been completely extinguished, leaving permanent white patches, continue to use drugs cannot produce melanin, therefore should not apply drugs at all. For these permanent white patches, surgical treatment, such as epidermal transplantation, can be used as appropriate.