Vitiligo Treatment

Vitiligo is an acquired autoimmune condition that is characterized by the destruction of epidermal melanocytes causing loss of skin pigment.It can affect the skin on any part of your body. It may also affect hair and the inside of the mouth. Vitiligo normalIy ranges from 1.25% to 6% of the population. The most communal type is non-segmental generalized vitiligo (referred to as vitiligo), which presents with extensively dispersed, typically symmetric, as well as progressive lesions. Vitiligo has an articulate impact on the physical as well as mental health of patients, including loss of skin photo protection, compromised cutaneous immunity, as well as an appreciable decrease in quality of life that is unswervingly correlated with the early age of onset.

Types of Vitiligo

There are three major types of vitiligo are as follows:

• Segmental Vitiligo
• Non-Segmental Vitiligo
• Mixed Vitiligo

Segmental vitiligo starts as well as stays in one side of body. It is an autoimmune disease. It is clearer in early age groups, affecting about 30 percent of children diagnosed with vitiligo.

Non-Segmental Vitiligo, it is an autoimmune disease as well as often mirrors on both sides of the body. It is most common type of vitiligo observed in 90% cases. They often appear on skin that is commonly exposed to the sun, such as the face, neck, and hands.

Mixed Vitiligo Mixed Vitiligo intersection of both types in the rare cases where segmental becomes non-segmental.

Symptom and Causes

The elementary symbol of vitiligo is loss of skin color. Discoloration first shows on sun-exposed areas like hands, lips, arms and face.

Vitiligo Signs Include:

• Occasional loss of skin color
• Premature whitening of the hair on your scalp, eyelashes, eyebrows or beard
• Loss of color in the tissues that line the inside of your mouth and nose (mucous membranes)
• Change in color of the inner layer of the eyeball (retina) Hyperpigmentation at the edges of the discolored patches on the skin Vitiligo can start at any age, nevertheless frequently seems before age 20.

Causes

Vitiligo occurs when the melanocytes die or stop functioning. Melanocytes are nothing but cells producing melanin. It is pigment that gives color to eye skin and hair. Vitiligo may cause due to:

• A disorder in which your immune system attacks and destroys the melanocytes in the skin.
• Family history (heredity).
• A trigger event, such as sunburn, stress or exposure to industrial chemicals.
• Stressful events A virus Vitiligo is not contagious.

Homeopathic Treatment

We at Dr Joy's homeopathy clinic have been treating patients of vitilgo since last 33 years and our expertise experience of a homeopath treating vitiligo is that the lesions may firstly stop spreading, and existing lesions do not increase in size, and no new lesions appear. Secondly, re-pigmentation may occur, and the borders of the lesions that were formerly diffuse become more clearly marked, indicating cessation of spread. Homeopathic medicine is safe, natural and without any side effects.