Archives for July, 2009
No doubt, our dermatologists are trying hard in order to find a better solution for coping with vitiligo. But in spite a lot of advancement in medical science; vitiligo is becoming a challenge for dermatologist as; it is extremely resistant to treat.
Phototherapy for the treatment of vitiligo usually employs the sunlight and natural psoralen for thousands of years. Still today; it is a first-line treatment for vitiligo. Although, these treatments are working well, but there is always a fear that, the white patches may return and spread more widely than before. That is way; dermatologists are [...]
The University of Cincinnati and Tokyo Medical University have recently made an important discovery toward the manipulating skin tone and color, in the quest of, a timeless healthier and younger looking skin.
Recently, Superstar Michael Jackson and more than 40 million others who were suffered from a de-pigmenting skin disease, now have a better way to predict the effectiveness of vitiligo treatment, with the help of a tool called the Vitiligo Area Scoring Index (VASI). It is a simple scale, which allows vitiligo people and clinicians to [...]
The scientists University of Bradford have found that a combination of water from the Dead Sea, of Jordan climate with a special cream is very significantly help for vitiligo people. This observation has made by The Head of the University’s Institute of Pigmentary Disorders Professor Karin Schallreuter and her team. They found that, the white [...]
The 308-nm XeCl excimer laser has recently been shown to be effective in the treatment of vitiligo. In this prospective study, researchers formed three treatment regimens to determine whether frequency or total number of treatments was most important for effectiveness. They treat fourteen patients of each regimen with at least three distinct vitiligo lesions in [...]
The white patches of vitiligo also referred as “lesions” by the dermatologists. It is mentioned in an article of “The Archives of Dermatology”.These lesions usually appeared on skin due to the lack of melanin (a color producing pigment). These lesions may also, sometime, appear on both the mucous membranes and in the retina of the [...]
It has been published in “Journal Watch Dermatology” that, both excimer laser and tacrolimus ointment have definite but distinctly modest benefits for repigmentation in skin. Investigator said that, if we use a short course of excimer laser combined with tacrolimus ointment then, we can achieve a far higher rate of cosmetically relevant vitiligo repigmentation.
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