Vitiligo can be treated with topical medications, oral medications, phototherapy, surgery and so on.
1. topical drugs: vitiligo is confined to the finger area, the lesion area is relatively small, you can use topical drugs to treat, commonly used drugs such as glucocorticosteroids such as hydrocortisone butyrate ointment, mometasone furoate cream, etc., as well as vitamin D3 derivatives such as captopanol cream.
2. oral drugs: if the patient vitiligo is in the progressive stage, can be controlled by the systemic application of hormonal drugs, oral prednisone acetate, methylprednisolone and so on.
3. phototherapy: for single drug treatment effect is not good, can also be oral or external hormone drugs combined with the use of photochemotherapy, generally can achieve better therapeutic effect, the treatment need to pay attention to the protection of the eyes.
4. Surgery: if adult patients in the past year, the condition has not worsened, nor the formation of new white spots, if necessary, surgical treatment can be carried out, including autologous epidermal skin piece transplantation, tiny skin piece transplantation, etc., which is more commonly used in the clinic of autologous epidermal skin piece transplantation, and its operation is simple and efficacy is good.
Vitiligo patients need to use drugs, should be timely medical treatment and under the guidance of the doctor, do not self-medication, so as not to cause adverse consequences.