Can Mucosal Type of Vitiligo Such as Lips be Treated?

Mucosal Type vitiligo is a limited skin pigmentation loss. As a result of the process of melanin production, transport, and degradation, any one of the links of the disorder can affect its metabolism, and pigmentation loss resulting in skin white patches could appear on the skin and mucous membrane. It can present at any age and on any part of the skin and mucous membranes.

Mucosal vitiligo often occurs at sites such as the mouth and lips, glans, vagina, anus, etc. The damage can occur alone or with skin damage at the same time, vitiligo occurring in the mouth and lips are more common, the skin manifests itself as a light-colored hypopigmented spot, the boundary is clearer, the whole lip red area can be involved, the incidence of vitiligo patients' lips is about 50%.

Physical therapy is recommended for less damage. The recovery of mucous membrane vitiligo is slow and patients should be patient with the treatment. In addition, most of the vitiligo in the mucous membrane area first occurred in the extremities, and many extremity-type vitiligo patients are caused by long-term exposure to irritating chemical drugs. For example, hairdressers must pay attention to protection when they come into contact with hair dyeing and perming potions every day.

It is difficult to treat vitiligo because the location is special so treatment methods can not be all effective, as lips inside the vitiligo are not suitable for drug treatment, and more unsuitable for external medicine and surgery treatment. The specific method is also based on the situation of the patient to decide, it is recommended that patients do not blindly treat, so as not to aggravate the disease.

No matter what disease is treated, it is necessary to first find the missing causative factors and target the treatment. If the patient does not find a regular specialist hospital to carry out systematic detection of the cause of the disease, then blindly with drug treatment, not only can not cure the disease, but also produce resistance, and over time will become dependent on drugs, eventually leading to delay. Patients are advised to look for a professional, regular, and authoritative hospital and actively cooperate with the doctor's treatment.

Although vitiligo is a stubborn chronic disease, it is not untreatable. As long as you adhere to effective treatment, there is still hope for the restoration of health. Vitiligo is better to treat the small and medium area of white spots, or early vitiligo, difficult to treat is the whole body basically have white spots, that kind of patient mainly to control the main, to retain the skin that has not become white, so only in the small area of the time to seize the treatment, in order to achieve good treatment effect. In addition, mucous membrane vitiligo recovery is slow, patients should be patient with the treatment.