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How Can Vitiligo Be Treated?

Hi doctor my 15 years old daughter have a patch of resistant vitiligo under her chin and it is spreading very slowly upwards over a period of eight years she was treated with many steroid topical creams and photography but with no response finally a doctor prescribed her methotrexate injection 1/2 cm per week for 6 monthes is it effective. and is it safe for a young girl like her and thanks for your help
Tue, 31 Oct 2017
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It has its risks. It is very dangerous in pregnancy. But with local injection the amount given is minimized as is the risk. It is a chemotherapy drug and can lower the amount of cells i the blood. This is really rare to occur even with pills and far rarer with local injection amounts.
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How Can Vitiligo Be Treated?

It has its risks. It is very dangerous in pregnancy. But with local injection the amount given is minimized as is the risk. It is a chemotherapy drug and can lower the amount of cells i the blood. This is really rare to occur even with pills and far rarer with local injection amounts.