Cases of vitiligo are
growing day by day and its very important for us to know everything about
vitiligo, so that vital prevention steps can be taken to minimze the chances of
vitiligo. You can see that some people have spots on their skin and you may feel
curious to know about those spots, Our skin contains pigment cells and when
these pigment cells fails to perform their task, Spots starts appearing on the
skin. There could be so many reasons of vitiligo, It can also transfer through
genes or may be any viral infection causes vitiligo becuase enviornment plays a
vital role related to health issues. On the basis of wide research, it came to
our notice that autoimmune and oxidative stresses are also reasons of vitiligo.
On the basis of
reasons and suggestions, vitiligo has been categorized into segmental vitiligo
and non-segmental vitiligo.
In NSV, there is no
specific age in which vitiligo occurs, it can appear in any age and spots are
not restrictive to any particular area, they can appear in large volume.
Classes of Non-segmental vitiligo has been introduced on the basis of causes so
that prevention can be take place according to particular cause, this step just
made the prevention tools much easy.
Generalized
vitiligo is the class of
vitiligo in which spots appear on random basis and this class of vitiligo is
common among patients.
Focal
vitiligo . Research shows that
chlidren suffers this class of vitiligo mostly.
Universal
vitiligo appears due to high
volume of depigmentation.
Segmental
Vitiligo is obviously different
from non-segmental vitiligo and mostly teenage group suffers due to this
desease, its speed of spreading is much faster than NSV. Victim of SV is
usually the area that is inter-related to dorsal roots from the spinal cord.
There is no huge
symptoms of vitiligo, one main symptom can inform us clearly about vitiligo and
that is spots or patches on the skin, and if we talk about the shape of spots
then they could be differ and may appear on random basis and their size is also
unknown, may be initially they are small and then grow, so size is
unpredictable. Depigmentation usually appears on hands, wrists, legs, mouth and
face. Due to vitiligo, patients can clearly notice variation in their mood.
Causes
can be vary from patient to patient, mostl
common causes are enviornmental factors and any variation in immune system. Melanocytes
partly contain immune system and genes which causes generalized vitiligo.
Ultraviolet light or
UVA can easily diagnose vitiligo, when skin placed under these lights and if
skin turns to blue colour then it means that skin has dead pigment cells and
suffering vitiligo and if skin doesn't change its colour then skin is normal.
Research shows ome
methods or techniques to over come vitiligo, On initial basis Immune
Mediators can be used, through
immune mediators, function of immune system can operate effectively with the
help of glucocorti oids and calcineurin inhibitors.
Phototherapy.
After throwing UVB on the skin, phototherapy can
help to minimise the vitiligo and this process can take 2-3 weeks on the
condtion of low affected area and if time period of spots on the skin are
not longer than 3 years and if time period exceed from 3 years then
phototherapy can take 2-3 months. For this complete procedure, patient has to
go to clinic or hospital, research make us aware that we can improve pigment
cells and start repigmentation through UVB.
If patient wants to
hide their spots instead of removing them, Skin Camouflage can be effective for
this purpose, through camouflage make-up can hide the spots.
Depigmentation is also a choice to minimise or remove the
spots, but this process is time taking and may complete in a year or more than
one year. Through skin bleaching and by using different drugs like monobenzone,
mequinol and hydroquinone spots can be removed permanentaly but in this case
patient has to take much care to avoid sun light.
Hopefully this
information can help you much to understand anything about vitiligo..
