What Vitiligo Patients Need to Pay Attention to in Terms of Medication?

Vitiligo is one of the world-recognized most difficult stubborn diseases, easy to diagnose but very difficult to treat, and the cause of the disease is very complex. Vitiligo is hard to treat by using a single type of treatment, their treatment should consult a professional doctor's opinion. The following is a detailed description of what vitiligo patients need to pay attention to in terms of medication.

1. Avoid using some irregular medicine:

A lot of vitiligo patients want to find vitiligo medicines that are fast and eradicating. This kind of psychology is understandable since no one wants to let their appearance suffer from nearly disfiguring injury. But for the stubborn vitiligo disease, patients should not easily believe some advertising propaganda of vitiligo treatment with special effects, they need to recognize that even now the medical world has no vitiligo special effect medicine.

2. Avoid blindly imitating other patients’ medication

A lot of patients think that Chinese medicine vitiligo treatment is relatively safe and non-toxic, but with the wrong use of it, it will aggravate the disease, as the saying "three-tenths of any medicine is poison". Some vitiligo patients see the effect certain Chinese medicine is effective on others, and try to imitate the use of it, which ignores the individual difference between vitiligo patients, this should be avoided.

3. Avoid overdosing on medicine

Vitiligo patients should generally start with small doses of medication, especially when using western medicine for vitiligo. The side effects of western medicine are much more obvious than Chinese medicine, especially for the damage to the liver of vitiligo patients. Therefore, vitiligo patients with medication must be under the guidance of a professional doctor.

4. Avoid intermittent medication

The vitiligo medication should have a certain continuity and avoid intermittent medication. Some vitiligo patients are eager to cure the disease with medicine, but after a few days of no effect they would change it, today see the advertisement that this kind of medicine is good, use this kind of medicine; tomorrow see the praise of that kind of medicine is good, and then change to eat that kind of medicine. Other patients are forced to stop taking medication when their condition sees improvement due to financial pressure, and then take it again when it worsens.

5. Avoid hormone abuse

The abuse of hormones is one of the important reasons for the aggravation of vitiligo patients, for hormones, many vitiligo patients are loved and hated. The proper use of hormones can achieve the effect of treating vitiligo, and in general, small doses, short-term, local use of hormones will not cause significant harm to the patient's body.

We need to know that the treatment of vitiligo is not have a remarkable effect overnight, only after receiving professional and regular hospital treatment, can make the patient's condition get a treatment effect.