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Diabetic. On Blood Pressure Medication. Having Reoccurring White Patches On Face. What To Do?
Question: Hello I'm 49 years old I weigh 75 kg and my height is 5.0 foot.
I have blood pressure medications and am a diabetic.
I have white patches on my face that have been going away and coming back bigger for the past 3 years.
These white patches have returned this time even larger than before and I am extremely concerned. Please email me in regards to what I can do to get help from someone.
You can email on YYYY@YYYY
I have blood pressure medications and am a diabetic.
I have white patches on my face that have been going away and coming back bigger for the past 3 years.
These white patches have returned this time even larger than before and I am extremely concerned. Please email me in regards to what I can do to get help from someone.
You can email on YYYY@YYYY
Hello XXXXXXX and thanks for posting the query
To treat any kind of disease we have to first treat the cause and then prevent the disease to occur by following the said precautions. The white patches on the face have many reasons to occur. You have to find out the cause and accordingly treatment can be planned for that. These marks on face bother us more because they are easily visible. Some of the causes and measures that can help you are:
1. Leucoderma: It is treated with oral medicines that contain antioxidants. Then there are medicinal ointments which have to be applied topically on the white spots.
2. Treatment for fungal infection involves a good skin care regime that includes cleansing and moisturizing; along with regular application of antifungal creams on the infected area.
3. Damaged melanocytes cells that have stopped producing melanin can also be activated with the help of phototherapy
4. Sometimes, laser resurfacing is used to get rid of ugly white spots left behind by skin injury or fungal infection.
Most of the causes of white skin patches on face cannot be prevented but you can get rid of them with proper treatment. Sometimes, women try to hide such spots with cosmetics and delay the treatment, this should not be done. As you have recurrent occurrence of the patches, you must contact a dermatologist to ascertain the exact cause behind the problem and get treated.
Hope I have answered your query. I will be glad to answer the follow up query or other queries if you have any.
Best Wishes and Have a healthy life.
Dr. Kulbir Singh
To treat any kind of disease we have to first treat the cause and then prevent the disease to occur by following the said precautions. The white patches on the face have many reasons to occur. You have to find out the cause and accordingly treatment can be planned for that. These marks on face bother us more because they are easily visible. Some of the causes and measures that can help you are:
1. Leucoderma: It is treated with oral medicines that contain antioxidants. Then there are medicinal ointments which have to be applied topically on the white spots.
2. Treatment for fungal infection involves a good skin care regime that includes cleansing and moisturizing; along with regular application of antifungal creams on the infected area.
3. Damaged melanocytes cells that have stopped producing melanin can also be activated with the help of phototherapy
4. Sometimes, laser resurfacing is used to get rid of ugly white spots left behind by skin injury or fungal infection.
Most of the causes of white skin patches on face cannot be prevented but you can get rid of them with proper treatment. Sometimes, women try to hide such spots with cosmetics and delay the treatment, this should not be done. As you have recurrent occurrence of the patches, you must contact a dermatologist to ascertain the exact cause behind the problem and get treated.
Hope I have answered your query. I will be glad to answer the follow up query or other queries if you have any.
Best Wishes and Have a healthy life.
Dr. Kulbir Singh
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