Many patients are recommended by dermatologists to cover their Vitiligo spots through cosmetics. This type of cure method or Vitiligo makeup actually is associated with relatively enhanced quality of life, because people feel significant reduction in their stares or remarks after using this method. But covering up could be a time consuming job that could affect daily routine’s activities, which is surely a downside of this method. It is also noted that some patients showed concerns about permanently hiding some part of their original body that generates Continue reading →
Vitiligo Makeup
April 20th, 2012 — Vitiligo Treatments
Vitiligo
November 29th, 2011 — Vitiligo
Vitiligo is a skin disorder generated by the loss of the pigment cells in the skin, these are called melanocytes.
People Affected from Vitiligo
This disease affects around one to two percent of the world population. If the person has more dark age, the vitiligo spots would appear more but the ones who have brighter skin, the vitiligo spots appear less. The appearance of vitiligo shows off more in those countries where the majority of the population has darker skin like in India.
Causes vitiligo to take place
November 26th, 2011 — Vitiligo Causes
Human skin consists of three layers – the epidermis, the dermis and the subcutaneous tissue. The medical science says that the outmost layer of the skin is called the epidermis. Melanin, as is vivid that it determines the color of human skin, hair and eyes, get produced in the epidermis. The science says that the melanin gives the color to the human skin and is completely helpful in protecting the skin from any kind of damage happens from ultraviolet light.
Vitiligo Research and the Positive Observations
November 15th, 2011 — News & Research
Vitiligo leaves the human skin with the various big and small white and pale patches, which then may turn stretched and transcend on other body parts. Researchers in the world are always busy in studying this disease that spoils the human confidence and makes them psychologically ill. No treatment has been explored yet but the teams are certain that they will explore it soon.
Vitiligo Awareness Day
October 29th, 2011 — News & Research
Patients to be Provided Awareness of Disease
The patients with Vitiligo should be treated with equal rights without any disgrace, bias and segregation to enable them to get the benefits of other self-help such as camouflage make-up, image building programs and so on.
The easiest and the quickest support, which can be provided to the patients with Vitiligo, is awareness of the disease because when the next person ceases to stigmatize and segregate, the problem already gets half solved.
Vitiligo and Its Psychological Effects on the Patients
October 28th, 2011 — News & Research
Vitiligo, a skin disease that leaves the skin with white patches, turns out to be much devastating for the patients leaving them under big psychological and emotional pressures and making them sexually damaged. A multifactorial skin depigmenting disorder, it can affect anyone.
Vitiligo Genetic Roots with Skin Cancer
October 27th, 2011 — News & Research
As per the studies done by the researchers, it has been learnt that the unexpected link between the hair and skin pigmentation disorder might cause implications for vitiligo genetic roots with skin cancer and malignant melanoma. The researcher Richard A. Spritz, MD of the University of Colorado is of the view that the generalized vitiligo in Caucasians of European descent’s research of the genome wide association largely hemmed the associations with immune-related genes done in the past.
Repigmentation of Hands and Feet
August 25th, 2011 — Vitiligo Treatments
The unfortunate fact about the repigmentation of hands and feet of vitiligo patches is that the patient usually needs to have some melanocytes in order to have the healing or the repigmentation process to start. It is seen that the last left melanocytes get gathered in the hair follicles on the human physiques and the patients have a few on hands, feet, elbows and knees.
Vitiligo treatment with Parsely Celery and Bergamot Oil
August 20th, 2011 — Vitiligo Treatments
It is noticed that Psoralens are presently used for the vitiligo treatment with parsely celery and bergamot oil of the patients of vitiligo and Psoriasis. The Psoralens are put into use as photosenstizers enhancing the skin reactivity to long wavelength ultraviolet radiation 320 to 400 nm, it happens to be an effect used in photochemotherapy or PUVA.
Skin Dyes for Covering the Vitiligo Patches
August 15th, 2011 — News & Research
Vitiligo is a skin disease; it is a common pigment disorder of the human skin dyes for covering the vitiligo patches. This disease happens when the immune system inside the human body attacks the melanocytes (pigment making cells). As a result, the white patches or spots start appearing on the skin. It is obvious that if the patient’s color is dark, the vitiligo spots would be prominent more than the ones with white color.