Vitiligo can be cured, but because it is a chronic disease, the course of treatment is relatively long, need patients and doctors work together, patiently adhere to the treatment.
The treatment of vitiligo has accumulated a lot of clinical experience at home and abroad for a long time, and there are many kinds of specific treatment methods, which in summary include three major categories of systemic medication, topical medication and physical or other therapies, which are often taken in conjunction with different methods. Different patients should be analyzed according to their conditions in order to choose the most optimal treatment plan.
The topical medication occupies a quite important position in vitiligo, the commonly used topical preparations are: 1, calcium-regulated phosphatase inhibitors (tacrolimus, pimecrolimus), etc.; 2, corticosteroids; 3, other, such as calcipotriol (trade name Darex), nitrogen mustard, psoralen, and a variety of traditional Chinese medicine topical preparations, etc.
The actual physical therapy is to use light and other physical methods on the vitiligo lesions to achieve the treatment effect, commonly used: 1, phototherapy: narrow-spectrum ultraviolet therapy, excimer laser therapy; 2, photochemotherapy: also known as psoralen long-wave ultraviolet therapy (PUVA), through internal or external application of psoralen, to achieve the purpose of treating vitiligo.
It can be treated with prescriptions to dredge the liver and Qi, invigorate blood and dispel wind.
The main two types of methods include autologous transplantation and allogeneic transplantation. It can also be divided into skin piece transplantation and cell transplantation.