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Suggest Treatment For Vitiligo
Hello doc, my mother had the vitiligo since her childhood but very less spots and now she is 55 and white patches is spreading all over the body..almost 30% body affected..since last one year it is spreading badly.. please suggest some medication..is Tenovate TM helpful? Any oientment which helps in stoping these and repigmentation.? Please help me.
Mon, 10 Jul 2017
Hi and welcome.
First some drugs, used alone or with light therapy, can help restore some skin tone. These include: creams that control inflammation. Applying a corticosteroid cream to affected skin may help return color, particularly if you start using it early in the disease.
Milder forms of the drug may be prescribed for children and for people who have large areas of discolored skin.
Medications that affect the immune system such as ointments containing tacrolimus or pimecrolimus (calcineurin inhibitors) may be effective for people with small areas of depigmentation, especially on the face and neck.
This treatment may have fewer side effects than corticosteroids and can be used with ultraviolet B (UVB) light.
And last: Combining psoralen and light therapy. This treatment combines a plant-derived substance called psoralen with light therapy (photochemotherapy) to return color to the light patches.
Surgery may be an option for you if light therapy doesn't work. Surgery can also be used with those therapies.
Wish you good health. Regards
First some drugs, used alone or with light therapy, can help restore some skin tone. These include: creams that control inflammation. Applying a corticosteroid cream to affected skin may help return color, particularly if you start using it early in the disease.
Milder forms of the drug may be prescribed for children and for people who have large areas of discolored skin.
Medications that affect the immune system such as ointments containing tacrolimus or pimecrolimus (calcineurin inhibitors) may be effective for people with small areas of depigmentation, especially on the face and neck.
This treatment may have fewer side effects than corticosteroids and can be used with ultraviolet B (UVB) light.
And last: Combining psoralen and light therapy. This treatment combines a plant-derived substance called psoralen with light therapy (photochemotherapy) to return color to the light patches.
Surgery may be an option for you if light therapy doesn't work. Surgery can also be used with those therapies.
Wish you good health. Regards
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