Woensdag 9 juli 2008

Vitiligo Types

White spots appeared on the areas exposed to the sun, hand feet, arm, face and neck etc are called vitiligo. Vitiligo is a skin condition or one say a skin disease in which melanin (pigmenting substance responsible for skin color) production disturbed.

Some time vitiligo is called pigmentation disorder in the human skin. The human skin contains special skin cells called melanocytes. Actually these cell t produce the pigment melanin which provide color of the skin. When melanocytes and mucous membranes tissues that is situated inside the mouth, nose, genital and rectal areas and the retina of the eyes are destroyed resulting the white patches of vitiligo.
These white patches of skin may appear on different parts of the body. Vitiligo may also causes the turn of color of hairs into white above the area affected by vitiligo.

Vitiligo has a close relation with autoimmune system of the body, and it is not wrong if we say that vitiligo is a common anomaly of the immune system that result in white spots on in the body. Case study shows that there are currently no acceptable permanent means to halt this process and exact reason of vitiligo is unknown. When we talk about the cure of vitiligo, we deals with eliminating the white spots weather root cause is addressed or not.

Today there are dozens of different methods in used for the treatment of vitiligo but there in no exact theory regarding the causes of vitiligo. One famous theory says some toxic material produced in the body which destruct the melanocytes cells.

Sunburn is a common symptom of vitiligo.

Types of Vitiligo
There are many types of vitiligo under the two main types.

1. Localized Vitiligo

Focal pattern vitiligo
In focal vitiligo a single patch on face, hand or leg with no other occurrences of disease on other body parts.
A light topical treatment is enough for the cure of focal pattern vitiligo and also small cosmetic surgery and tattooing are enough for such vitiligo.

Segmental pattern vitiligo
It is often called Lip Tip vitiligo because it is mostly limited to lips , distal parts of the fingers and toes. It is most difficult to treat segmental vitiligo.
Segmental vitiligo has quasi-dermatomal pattern with one or more spots. These patches are of irregular shap and asymmetric in distribution.
One or more patches are distributed within the same segment (anatomical distribution of the body) of the body.

2.Generalized Vitiligo

Acrofacial vitiligo
Acrofacial vitiligo is very common distribution of the disease in this type of vitiligo the white spot are restricted to parts away from the center of the body.
Affecting distal extremities and face. Some patches on face and some on other body parts, but not on all over the body.
the disease effects the exposed parts of the body such as head , face , feet and hand, therefore it also causes the great emotional distress.

Vulgaris Vitiligo
Due to wide spread it may take long time for treatment and normally it is not easy to treat this type of vitiligo. Also surgery may not be an option for patients of vitiligo vulgaris.In vitiligo vulgaris small patches of vitiligo are spread in a pattern like shower admixed with normal skin in segmental or acrofacial pattern.
This is the most common type with bilaterally symmetrical lesions, predominantly distributed over face, neck, torso, fingers, toes, palms, soles and facial orifices.

Universal vitiligo
It is also called vitiligo totalis, this type of disease cover almost all the body except some parts of the body like islands. Only choice for the treatment is permanent medical bleaching.

I am very thankful to http://www.antivitiligo.com/ for providing such a useful info which place for our million of population suffering from vitiligo as well as for the researchers

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Bojako20 oktober 2008 om 11:57

As long as no one knows what causes Vitiligo it's impossible to look for an effecient cure.
My eldest son has it and it occured out of the blue when he was about 10.
The best solution for a white person is to try not to get suntanned - at least the white patches are less visible then.
I've also noticed through the years that the spots tend to move around. Some dissapear and others appear. We visited numerous dermatologists but although they suggest alternative treatment, no one really knows what to do and nothing helped.
I think the best thing is : learning to accept it and live with it. There are other skin disorders that are much worse such as excema and psiorasis, because they are also itchy and painful.
If a person has vitiligo and is embarrassed then there are many creams to cover the white areas.
However as I said - and it was the dermatologist who advised this many years ago : keep out of the sun and stay as white as possible if you are a white person. Furthermore, if you do go out into the sun you need a very high sunblock on the affected areas because there is no pigmentation and the sunburn afterwards is terrible.
By the way I am amazed that you started an english weblog about Vitiligo here at Seniorennet. Many people won't understand it. Wouldn't it be advisable to write in Flemish? (Dutch)

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Maandag 16 juni 2008

Vitiligo and Natural Remedies

This is a guide line for the use of Natural substances for the treatment of different diseases. It is found that for skin disease natural remedies are more helpfull.

Although it is right that the result of Natural medicine normally taken a long period to be show. But a strong benefit that it has no side effects.

Herbal and Natural medicines are cheaper and easily available then the prescription medicine.

First of all carefully study should be made about what ingredients are supportable for your disease. Then see in which natural substances these ingredients are found. Then finally consult some one about these natural substances are beneficial for the specific disease. If yes then you are ready to use this substances.

Here is the remedy mad by the following herbal subtances for the cure of vitiligo .

1- Coconut oil

2- Psoralea Coryli Folia

3- Black cumin

4- Barberry Root

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Zaterdag 14 juni 2008

Vitiligo and Alternative Medicines

Vitiligo is very generalized skin condition due the abnormality in the auto immune system of the body.
About 1 to 2% of our population is suffering from this condition. There are different type of treatment use for cure of vitiligo.Amongs them Alternative Medicine is very popular and most economic.
So this post is for the relationship between vitiligo and alternative medicine.

You will hardly find a mortal who has used a prescription medicine for Vitiligo and is very happy about it, but even if it were successful and gratifying, that does not mean that there can not be other types of remedies which can be effective as well. There are a large number of people who simply would like to refrain harsh chemical substances. For the people who do not feel very comfortable with these chemical products, there are numerous remedies in various disciplines of alternative medicine. These remedies are certainly not less effective if not more. They have other advantages as well!

First of all I would like to count their gentle action. That may appear to be a disadvantage to some people because gentle action may be inferred as slow, but gradual changes in the body systems are always better tolerated and have a more lasting effect. Then the natural remedies have a far less potential of side effects. There is either no side effect at all, or if there are any, they are also slow to appear and can hence be detected at an early stage without significant discomfort or damage.

Herbal and natural remedies in general, are a far cheaper option than the prescription medicine. They are simple to prepare and you hardly ever need the highly expensive professional supervision for their use.

One may ask the very pertinent question then; “why the alternative medicines are so much less in use”. The answer is simple. The herbal and natural products have to be licensed by drug regulating authorities before marketing if they are to appear in the competitive market of medicine. That involves a lot of money. Humongous amounts need to be spent on pre-launch researches and the like. The industry of alternative medicine simply does not have that big money! Then there are no laws to grant patents for these products to assure the recovery of your investments.
Now we come to most important question.

The answer is yes in block letter.

The most important fact about alternative medicine is its solution oriented approach contrary to the problem oriented approach of scientific medicine. Diseases result from a complex interaction of multiple derangement of body systems. The alternative medicines are generally a combination of numerous ingredients which work on different levels with different intensities and tend to solve the problem at every level. The benefit is hence more complete, more logical and more lasting. Prescription medicines on the contrary are generally based on a single ingredient, which targets only a small specific component of the abnormality. No wonder their effects are generally temporary.

Herbal medicine focuses also on improving the general health and nutrition of the whole body as well as that of the organ/ component presenting the current problem. That gives it

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