What is Vitiligo

What is Human Skin color Disorder Disease vitiligo / Leucoderma ?

Vitiligo, auto immune disorder,  in which milky white patches appears on skin mainly on arms, legs, elbows and face. Most accepted view about the appearance of vitiligo is that sometimes our auto immune system take pigments as outsider and an attack on them makes them weaker and can even destroy them. This phenomena is called De-pigmentation . Pigments are responsible for the coloration of skin once they damage they can’t function properly again, thus causes vitiligo. Following are the factors that causes vitiligo:

• An auto immune disorder
• Immense stress
• Genetic oxidative intense imbalance
• Exposure to certain chemicals
• A viral cause
• A neural cause
• Harm to the skin due to sunburn or cut

Patients suffers from vitiligo faces many difficult situations. This disease leaves a negative impact on a person’s life. Several cases appears where a patient hesitate to interact with the society because he\she thinks that people might hate them and don’t pay attention to them. Several such cases leads to the breaking of relationships and patient may even leave their jobs. All such circumstances in which society boycotts a person or in which person boycotts society leads the life of a normal person to depression and ruin their lives.

Treatments

For the vitiligo treatment, number of treatments are available. But it should be kept in mind that its cure is not possible but recovery can be done. Treatments are classified as 

Medical therapies

Many kind of medical therapies for the recovery of vitiligo has been invented. These therapies produce artificial pigmentation and skin disorder is recovered. These therapies are:

• Topical corticosteroid
• Topical immunomodulators
• Topical psoralen plus ultraviolet
• Oral psoralen  photo chemotherapy (oral therapy)
• Narrow band ultraviolet
• Excimer laser

But there are drawbacks as well. Almost all the therapies have some side effects, which may cause headaches, skin cancer etc. Then there are some surgical treatments to recover vitiligo. In this technique pigmentation is started by transplantation of T-CELLS from healthy pigmentation area to de-pigmented region of the body. Number of  surgical therapies are available as:

• Autologous skin graft
• Blisters grafting
• Tattooing (micro pigmentation)

Then there are many surgical and medical treatments are available but no available world wide or many patients have not access or affordness because these therapies are under experiment For example a new therapy called “autologous melancocyte” is under observation.

Homeopathic treatments

Homeopathic treatments are the oldest and the effective way of recovering vitiligo but advancement are also made in homeopathic field.

Now the question rises that are all the vitiligo treatments fake?

No, not above mentioned treatments are fake. Many people says that medical and surgical therapies are fake. But the thing is that these treatments have become fruitless. In some cases vitiligo removes but in some cases it just heals up to some extent, however not fake at all. Herbal treatments are famous in this regard. On the other hand some companies claims that by using their products for  vitiligo will completely remove.oils and natural remedies for vitiligo and tablets are also available such as anti vitiligo oil and  anti vitiligo tabs.