Archives for “Treating vitiligo”
Vitiligo is an immune disorder, which produce milky white sports in the skin due to the lack of melanin. It is a very common skin abnormality that does not show any significant difference in its occurrence as regards gender, race or age. It can be easily observed in 1 to 2% of the general human [...]
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 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 [...]
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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