What is vitiligo?
Vitiligo is a confined white patch that occurs later in life due to skin pigmentation loss, so what is skin pigmentation? What is the matter with pigment loss? The so-called skin pigment is the skin melanin, skin melanin exists in the skin and hair follicles in the melanocytes, melanocytes produce melanin in the role of the enzyme complex, and then through a series of complex biochemical process and generated.
When this process is impaired, it will lead to a decrease in the activity of the enzyme complex, or even disappear, and then the melanin production is reduced and disappeared, which is usually called pigment loss in medical terms, and the result of the loss makes the local skin white spot-like. This is because our ancient called this disease is called white spot, and because of its onset “indefinite” with the characteristics of wind evil, wind to which part of the part of the skin will be white, so it is named “vitiligo”.
The actual reason for this is the fact that the actual people are not able to get to the actual place.
The reason of vitiligo is not very clear so far, summarized nine factors: genetic factors; psycho-neurological factors; chemical factors; auto-immune factors; melanocyte self-destruction factors; endocrine factors; tyrosine, copper ion relative lack of factors; infection factors; trauma factors and so on. It can be seen that the onset of vitiligo is multifaceted, but a significant number of people can not find any triggering factors. Our research found that vitiligo patients are closely related to melanin regardless of the site of onset. We focus on activating melanin when researching treatment drugs. At the same time, also in the organs of the organs of the organs of supplemental conditioning to start with the root of the solution.
What are the treatment methods for vitiligo?
Therefore, people are most concerned about the treatment of the disease, whether it can be cured, what kind of treatment is good, how to choose the right treatment method, the treatment of the disease have those drugs, how long to treat the effect, how long to cure? These are all questions that patients often ask.
In response to this question, I think there are two concepts that affect the misconception of treatment: one is to exaggerate the efficacy, that is, regardless of how the disease can be cured. The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who are not able to get a good deal on a lot of things.
The main treatment methods of our hospital are: oral medication (mainly homemade Chinese medicine), external medication, UV phototherapy, and autologous epidermal transplantation. Our hospital has the world’s leading UV light therapy system, which can select different wavelengths of ultraviolet light to irradiate the lesion area, increase the photosensitivity of pigment cells, and promote pigment cells to produce more melanin, so as to achieve the purpose of cure.
Autologous epidermal transplantation is a more advanced treatment method, which is also the shortest course of treatment and the most reliable treatment method. Its treatment principle is to use the human epidermal cell separator to extract epidermal basal melanocytes from the patient’s own normal skin and implant them into the white spot area, so that they can grow with the regenerated epidermis at the same time and make the skin completely recover to normal color in about 3-6 months. The treatment has been proven by a large number of clinical experiments to have a short course of treatment, high cure rate, no need for injection, no anesthesia, no hospitalization, no scars, and the prognosis of the operated area is the same color as normal skin, which enjoys a leading level among the domestic and foreign counterparts.
What is the cure rate of vitiligo related to?
The healing time is affected by seven factors.
1, onset time: early onset (within 3 months) about 3 ~ 10 months to heal, the average 7 months; medium-term patients (onset time 4 months ~ 3 years) 6 months ~ 2 years to heal, the average 1.5 years; late stage patients (more than 4 years) 1 ~ 4 years to heal, the average 2 years. Our hospital statistics 2597 patients, the cure rate of different onset time is: 95% in the early stage, 57% in the middle stage, 33% in the late stage.
2, the size of the lesions: the lesions are rice grains to nail size, a limited distribution of points, healing time of about 3 ~ 10 months; circumference of only one piece, the area of the palm size, healing time of about 8 ~ 14 months; area of 2 ~ 3 palm size healing time of about 10 ~ 16 months; larger area, the circumference of multiple distribution, 2 ~ 4 years to heal.
3, the site of the lesion: the face is fast and easy to cure. In order is the face, head, neck, back, forehead, two iliac, waist, abdomen, hands and feet and mucous membrane parts. The joints of the limbs, hands and feet, and mucous membrane areas have a long course of treatment and a low cure rate. The head hair is white, black and white is easy to turn black, all white is more difficult to cure. The white eyebrows are easy to cure, but the white eyelashes are more difficult to restore the normal color.
4, age: adolescents and children are better than the middle-aged and elderly, but there is no significant difference in the efficacy of early onset. There is a significant difference in the efficacy of middle and late stage patients depending on their age. (The cell regeneration ability of adolescents and children is stronger than that of middle-aged and elderly people)
5, individual differences: living habits, mental state, physical condition and other individual differences in its efficacy, partial diet, addicted to alcohol and tobacco, children addicted to snacks, drinks, the efficacy of slow, long course of treatment; keep a relaxed mood, emotional stability of the efficacy than long-term mental tension, depression, insomnia and other neuropsychiatric disorders; obese children, the skin color is more difficult to treat.
6, the type of lesions: confined small area cure rate of up to 96%; ganglion type cure rate of up to 98%, but this type of slow, long treatment time, up to 9 months to take effect, large area of heavy disease requires treatment for 2 to 3 years to cure. This type because of the complete loss of pigment cells in the lesion area, in order to heal must be combined with autologous epidermal cell transplantation; sporadic lesions with large areas, distributed in the joints, limbs, hands and feet, the disease is unstable, more difficult to cure; generalized, the most difficult to cure, healing rate of 5% or less.
7, the doctor’s responsibility: due to the onset of vitiligo multi-factor, complexity, treatment effect is also affected by many factors, a drug or method and can not cure all patients. The actual fact is that you can get the best results, so that the patient gets recovered and cured, the doctor’s responsibility is very important. The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who are not able to get rid of the pain and worry.
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A lot of people will have this concern, first should figure out what is contagious disease, contagious and is due to contact or have other media and infection disease, constitute the main condition of contagion is the pathogen. The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who are not able to get a good deal on a lot of things. Therefore vitiligo is not contagious.
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The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who are not able to get a good deal on a lot of things. Someone statistical analysis 830 cases of vitiligo, found that 95.54% and seasonal factors, especially late spring and early summer prone to white spots or increase the new white spots, of which 6.8% is in the sun exposure after the onset. Therefore vitiligo patients should moderately receive sunbathing, but not strong light exposure.
The actual fact is that there is no certain place of occurrence for vitiligo?
The most common sites are: face, neck, belt, sacral tail, back of fingers and toes, female bra strap or button pressure, hernia support, anal opening, female perineum.
Why is it in these areas?
One is that the exposed parts of the skin is susceptible to sunlight; two is that the cells themselves synthesize too much of the intermediate substance of melanin accumulation, damage to melanocytes thus occurring white spots; three is the friction parts of long-term pressure microcirculation is blocked, local damage caused.
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Adjustment of psychological quality and elimination of psychological pressure
It is not easy to completely eliminate psychological stress, and the joint efforts of patients, families and society are needed to do this. The family should always maintain a peaceful atmosphere, and whenever the patient is in a bad mood, they should be patient and comforting, and should not add fuel to the fire and make the patient angry. Help the patient to have confidence in the treatment of the disease. Colleagues should give care in the right way, avoid unnecessary inquiries about the disease, and do not ask questions knowingly, which will upset the patient, and discussing the patient’s condition with others will hurt the patient’s self-esteem.
The disease is not a contagious disease, not infectious to others, do not avoid or discriminate against patients. The most important thing is that the patient should strengthen the self-psychological quality of regulation, according to clinical observation, the cheerful type is more effective than the depressive type, men are more effective than women, children are more effective than adults, indicating that the disease is related to psychological factors. Therefore, during the treatment period, patients should maintain a relaxed mood, not to be angry, not to be angry, not to be angry, give full play to subjective positivity, and try to eliminate worries and sorrows.
According to their interests, choose the method of adjusting psychological quality, such as participating in sports, music and other activities. Taijiquan is a combination of static and dynamic fitness exercise, has the effect of harmonizing blood and qi, balancing yin and yang, easy to learn and do, men and women are suitable for all ages. It is best to participate in group activities in the morning, under the guidance of a teacher dedicated to learning and practicing, the effect is better. During the period of illness, you should also pay attention to the combination of work and rest, to maintain sufficient sleep, and to develop a regular work and rest time.
Diet and taboos
(1) No partial diet: In daily life, we should pay attention to scientific dietary conditioning, pay attention to the combination of various foods to ensure that the body sufficient nutrition, partial diet will cause food disorders, nutritional deviations, may lead to the synthesis of melanin essential substances relative lack. Therefore, partiality is a bad desire to eat habits, should pay attention to correct.
(2) ingest some copper food: there is experimental data to prove that vitiligo patients in the blood and white spot tissue in the copper and copper blue protein content is often significantly lower than normal people. This is to reduce or eliminate the poisoning that may be caused by the oral or intravenous route of administration, and can be used as a viable adjunct treatment for vitiligo.
(3) Eat more tyrosine-rich substances: such as lean meat in the beef, pork, etc., poultry eggs, animal offal such as liver, kidney, etc., milk, fresh vegetables, beans, including soybeans, lentils, green beans, soy products, etc. Peanuts, black sesame, raisins, hard fruits such as walnuts, etc., mineral foods such as shellfish, such as snails, razor clams, clams, oysters, etc.
(4) Avoidance of food is an important part: foods rich in vitamin C, such as fresh oranges, grapefruit, fresh dates, hawthorn, cherries, kiwi, strawberries and prunes should be avoided or eaten sparingly. Daily experience also shows that too acidic, too spicy food and the so-called “hot food” or “hairy” such as fish, shrimp, crab, mutton, dog meat, etc., the clinical patient complaints or intradermal test, have proved that the incidence of allergy is very high, should be contraindicated.
In my mind skin disease generally have itchy feeling, that vitiligo patients have what feeling?
The actual itchy sensation of vitiligo patients without the influence of other factors, most of them suggest the development of the disease. Because of the presence of inflammation, this time the white spot local itchy feeling, this itchy feeling is after the treatment occurs, is a normal reaction, does not mean that the white spot will develop.