Is there possibility of recurrence of vitiligo?

Is there possibility of recurrence of vitiligo?

There are many causes of vitiligo, immune disorder is one of them. So a part of scholars believe that vitiligo is a kind of self immune disease. And these are the characteristics of it: slow course, migration, easy to repeat and obvious recurrence after cure. Thus, relapse is of a objective phenomenon in vitiligo.

According to related foreign data, the recurrence rate of vitiligo is 20%-50%, most patients relapse after 2-15 months after cure. If patients follow doctor’s advice, develop good living habits, make correct diet regulations, some patients may not relapse.

Most patients pay more attention to the care of vitiligo during treatment, with scientific diets, good living habits. However, patients will have contact with adverse factors frequently, which will lead to the recurrence of vitiligo. Patients can not ignore the care of vitiligo during the treatment or after the recovery.

Consolidation therapy is an important step in vitiligo treatment, which is also easy to be ignored by patients. So many patients finish the treatment immediately when they see the disappeared white patches, with the thought of been cured. In fact, the melanin under the white patches doesn’t recover completely, once the treatment stopped, it is easily to relapse. Therefore, a period of consolidated treatment is needed, to make the melanin under the white patches recover completely and make the white patches disappear indeed .