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What is the treatment for vitiligo?

  Vitiligo is a disease that causes white spots to appear on any skin tone. Achromia can be isolated or spread throughout the body, affecting mainly the genitals, elbows, knees, face, hands, and feet. Reports of sensitivity and pain are rare. However, despite not causing physical impairment, patients with this condition face some prejudice in social life. Vitiligo can follow the path of a nerve, developing on only one side of the body, or it can spread bilaterally. These are the types known as segmental and non-segmental, the former resembling the causes described by the neural theory and the latter by the autoimmune theory. Stains caused by hydroquinone tend to remain only in places that came into contact with the substance. Treatment for Vitiligo: Autoimmune diseases such as type I diabetes, thyroiditis, lupus, and myasthenia are closely linked to bilateral vitiligo, and often the treatment of these diseases can lead to a reduction in white spots. Small lesions of vitilig...

What are the advances in vitiligo treatment?

  Vitiligo Treatment  is not contagious, it does not hurt and, although it can sometimes be associated with other pathologies, it is a fundamentally aesthetic disorder that does not endanger the patient's life. This has meant that even the dermatology community itself has sometimes made the mistake of not giving it the attention it really deserves. However, precisely because it is a pathology with fundamentally aesthetic repercussions, vitiligo has enormous emotional repercussions. It must be borne in mind that most patients do not have the luck of Winnie Harlow, the Canadian model who has made her vitiligo her hallmark to stand out on the catwalks, and must face difficult situations every day because of those white spots that are spread over his body and face. Stress, anxiety, and depression... are quite common among patients with vitiligo, who sometimes find it difficult to find work or establish social relationships. For this reason, we have dermatologists specialized...