The causes of gray hair are many, such as physiological gray hair, albinism, vitiligo, etc., need to be treated according to the different causes of the disease through medication, surgical treatment and so on.
1. physiological white hair: with age, the human body melanocytes in the loss of tyrosinase activity, resulting in the disappearance of the hair shaft pigment, is a normal physiological phenomenon, generally do not need to carry out special treatment. If you think it affects your appearance, you can restore the black color by dyeing your hair.
2. Albinism: is a group of congenital skin and hair partial or complete loss of pigmentation of hereditary diseases, can also lead to patients with white hair.
For albinism, there is no effective color restoration treatment, usually using symptomatic treatment.
3. Vitiligo: an acquired pigment loss disease, if the lesions are located on the scalp, can also lead to hair white.
For patients with progressive lesions, glucocorticoids can be used externally to restore skin color, commonly used drugs are fluticasone propionate, hydrocortisone butyrate, etc.; vitiligo caused by autoimmunity, can be treated with immune-modulating drugs, such as transfer factors, thymosin, etc..
For patients with stable vitiligo, it can also be treated by transplantation, such as autologous epidermal sheet transplantation, tiny skin sheet transplantation, single hair follicle transplantation and so on.
In addition progeria, baldness, mental stress, vitamin B deficiency can also lead to gray hair, need to identify the cause of the disease in time, under the guidance of the doctor for treatment. The above drugs should be used according to the doctor’s prescription.