Is it Possible to Treat Vitiligo with Only One Therapy like Phototherapy?

There is no single method that could treat vitiligo, although phototherapy is an advanced treatment method that would activate the local residual melanocytes to produce melanin, this is a method to treat the symptoms but not the root cause and must be applied with internal medication and topical medication.

Therefore, vitiligo treatment should be combined with their own disease time and white patches situation to choose a suitable treatment method, the current clinical treatment methods are surgery, phototherapy, drugs, injections, etc., not every method is suitable for each patient, it need to base on their situation to choose, it would be better for them to receive treatment earlier, to avoid missing the best time for the treating of vitiligo.

The following points should be noted before vitiligo treatment:

1. Understand the general knowledge of vitiligo: vitiligo will not bring painful feelings, but if there is no timely treatment, it will develop and even the hair may turn white. Patients must strengthen their understanding of vitiligo, not look at the persistent disease of vitiligo only on the surface phenomenon, they need to grasp the essence of vitiligo correctly, understand vitiligo correctly, and recognize the importance of early treatment of vitiligo and know the effectiveness of comprehensive treatment of it.

2. Taking accurate examination before taking treatment: vitiligo patients should do a systematic examination first before taking treatment. Many vitiligo patients panic after the disease, and take treatment blindly, they will try any vitiligo treatment method they heard has the effect, which would result in the aggravating of the disease. So before patients take vitiligo treatment, they need to regard the persistent disease of vitiligo positively, take examination seriously, find the cause of it, and know the development of it, to make the vitiligo treatment plan reasonably.

3. Treating based on cause and symptom: vitiligo looks the same, but in fact, it has different manifestations in every patient. Therefore, the treatment must be tailored to the patient's physical state, and the treatment must be based on symptoms. This is the only way to ensure the early treatment effect of the disease. This can't be done without the help of professional vitiligo treatment hospitals. Especially the professional treatment institutions for vitiligo patients to develop an individual treatment plan, to better ensure the early treatment of the stubborn disease of white patches.

Up to now, the combination of medicine and physical treatment, using internal and external methods, targeting both the symptoms and the root cause of the disease, is the most effective for vitiligo treatment. So, only taking medicine or light therapy is hard to make vitiligo patients recover.