Vitiligo in children is a common and frequent pigmented skin disease in children. It is a common skin disease that affects beauty, easy to diagnose and difficult to treat.
The current treatment methods: 1, local topical low and medium effect corticosteroids: this is the preferred treatment for children vitiligo. It is mainly applied to small limited lesions and children vitiligo, especially the skin of hands, feet, fingers, lips and peri-oral area. Halometasone cream, 0.05% clobetasone propionate or 0.1% trenbolone acetate are used topically, 2 times a day, with the best efficacy on the facial lesions, followed by the neck, and poorer on other parts of the body. In recent years, the effect of topical application of the calcium-regulated phosphatase inhibitors tacrolimus and pimecrolimus has been found to be clear. The more rapid development can be short-term oral small dose hormone therapy.
2, immune enhancers: oral levamisole, 100mg per day, 2 consecutive days per week, is suitable for the treatment of limited slow progressing vitiligo patients, combined with corticosteroid hormone effect is better. In addition there are immune agents such as transfer factor and multi anti-methotrexate, which can be used as appropriate.
3, trace elements: folic acid and vitamin B12 combined with sunlight exposure treatment. The actual mechanism of action is not clear. Observe 100 cases of vitiligo patients oral folic acid and vitamin B12, with direct sunlight in summer and UVB in winter, at least 3-6 months of treatment, the results of 52 patients have obvious efficacy, 6 patients pigment completely restored to normal, 60% of patients after treatment to stop the development of skin lesions. There are also treatment methods such as 308 laser and Chinese herbal medicine. Melanin transplantation is generally not used for children.
In conclusion, once you suspect that your child is suffering from vitiligo, must be early to the regular hospital examination and treatment, the earlier the treatment effect is more obvious.