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Does Vitiligo Increase On Exposure To Sunlight?

sir ,i m 22 years ,(6 feet and weighs 75 kg )old boy i have severe form of acne for the last 4 years ,during earlier stages of treatement i followed the prescribed medicines although the acne used to go for a while but it came back regularly after consulting three different dermatologists for this i went to another dermatologists and after seeing the papers of all the prescribed medicines he prescribed me TRETIVA CAPSULE he asked me to avoid direct exposure to sunlight ,during early days of treatment it was all ok but one day i met a person he was effected with VITILIGO i asked him that havent you consulted any doctor he said that the doctor is saying yhat is uncurable and he should avoid sunlight exposure otherwise VITILIGO will spread after that i co related sunlight with VITILIGO and i was too asked to avoid sunlight as i was taking TRETIVA ,ever since it has become a mania for me that i might end up having a VITILIGO if i go out in SUN LIGHT ,and i want to know if taking TRETIVA has any relation with TRETIVA ,please help me SIR its been an year now ever since i have stopped taking tretiva but i still fear sunlight this problem has weakened my concentration not just on studies but on anything please help me
Mon, 13 Nov 2017
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First of all i advice you not to overthink and relate your condition with any other disease...Above this i would like to inform you that sunexposure cannot lead to vitiligo instead it is one of the treatment modality for the same... Controlled UV-A and UV-B exposure(which are the part of sunlight) are one of the first line and FDA approved treatment modality for vitiligo...So its totally wrong if someone had passed such information to you...Now talking about you acne problem...Tretiva i.e oral isotretinoin is a wonderful drug for the resistant acne...So the doctor had made a right decision while prescribing you with Tretiva...It make skin more photosensitive which may result in itching and rash over sunexposure coz of that doc had advised to avoid sunexposure...I hope that you understand that your correlation was totally irrelevant...plz get rid of this fear...thanks
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Does Vitiligo Increase On Exposure To Sunlight?

First of all i advice you not to overthink and relate your condition with any other disease...Above this i would like to inform you that sunexposure cannot lead to vitiligo instead it is one of the treatment modality for the same... Controlled UV-A and UV-B exposure(which are the part of sunlight) are one of the first line and FDA approved treatment modality for vitiligo...So its totally wrong if someone had passed such information to you...Now talking about you acne problem...Tretiva i.e oral isotretinoin is a wonderful drug for the resistant acne...So the doctor had made a right decision while prescribing you with Tretiva...It make skin more photosensitive which may result in itching and rash over sunexposure coz of that doc had advised to avoid sunexposure...I hope that you understand that your correlation was totally irrelevant...plz get rid of this fear...thanks