Vitiligo Skin Disorder and 6 Different Types of Treatments

by wildcherry on Monday, November 9th, 2009 | Health, Life | No Comments

Vitiligo is a chronic skin disease that causes loss of pigment, resulting in irregular pale or white patches of skin. Common areas of the skin losing pigment are the face, lips, hands, arms, legs, and genital areas. Vitiligo on the scalp may affect the color of the hair, leaving white patches or streaks and so affect facial and body hair.

Today, about 0.5 to 1 percent of the world’s population has Vitiligo. However, the precise cause of vitiligo is complex and not fully understood. Most of the people who have vitiligo develop it before age 40; half the people develop it before their 20th birthday. Vitiligo affects individuals of all ethnic origins and both sexes; however, it is much more easily noticed on darker skin.

Michael Jackson “(The Biggest pop star of music culture of African America) was also diagnosed with vitiligo in 1986 by his dermatologist (read here). The latest news also mention Sammy Sosa having vitiligo because of his steroid use in the past (read here).

Here’s different types of treatments for Vitiligo:

1) vitiligo Treatment By Steroid Cream:
The use of corticosteroid (steroid) cream for between four to six weeks may helps to stop the spread of the patches, and may restore your original skin colour. The Steroid cream may also shows its side effects so it should only be used for a limited time.

2) Vitiligo Treatment By Skin camouflage:
This treatment involves in applying colored creams on patient’s skin, which gives natural matching of colour to the skin, and also helps to blend white patches with the rest of skin.

3) Vitiligo Treatment By Self-tanning lotion:
Vitiligo may also cover by applying Self-tanning lotions (fake tan). Some types of these lotions can last for several days before you need to reapply them.

4) Vitiligo Light therapy (photo therapy)

In almost half of all cases of vitiligo recovers by light therapy treatment that works well and returns the original colour to the skin. During light therapy, patient’s skin is exposed to Ultraviolet A (UVA) light from a special lamp, after giving a medicine (Psoralen)
Which makes his skin more sensitive to the light. This treatment is also called as PUVA (Psoralen and Ultraviolet A light)Note: This treatment can cause cancer, therefore, it is not recommended for children or pregnant women.

5) Vitiligo Treatment By Skin Grafting

This treatment also helps to stop the white patches but it is not always successful, and has a risk of scarring. During a skin graft, a surgeon will remove a thin layer of normal skin from one area of your body and attach it to the white area.

6) Vitiligo Treatment with Antivitiligooil

Antivitiligooil is a herbal medicine for vitiligo treatment. This herbal oil consists of a formulation of purely natural ingredients which are never harmful for skin. Antivitiligooil is a break through in vitiligo skin disorder disease and is very effective for vitiligo cure. Many vitiligo patients have used Antivitiliigooil and their skin disorder color is turned into their original skin color.
Antivitiligooil treatment have treated thousands of patients in all over the United States with high excellent results and likewise in the other countries of the world.

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Michael Jackson’s Skin Color Transformation caused by Vitiligo

by wildcherry on Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 | Health, Life | 24 Comments

I’m sure all of us have wonder why would Michael Jackson want to change who he was as an african american to be a white person. Well it turns out he didn’t choose to change…Vitiligo changes him.

MJ drastic change in the past two decades

Jackson told Oprah Winfrey in a 1993 interview, “I’m a black American. I am proud to be a black American. I am proud of my race, and I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity of who I am.

“I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of the skin. It’s something I cannot help. When people make up stories that I don’t like who I am, it hurts me,” Jackson told Winfrey.

Jackson’s claims that he had vitiligo elicited both empathy and skepticism.

Those familiar with the skin condition said vitiligo is commonly misunderstood because of its rarity. It affects approximately 1 percent of the world’s population, according to the American Vitiligo Research Foundation.

His features changed, and the color of his skin lightened significantly over the last two decades of his life.

When the face of the most recognizable entertainer in the world faded to near alabaster, the transformation struck a sensitive cultural spot. It intrigued and even offended people, spawning numerous articles and blog posts speculating about his metamorphosis.

This week, a source involved with the investigation into Jackson’s death said the singer’s body was “lily white from head to toe.” And another source said Jackson had “paper-white skin. As white as a white T-shirt.”

The singer denied changing his skin color for vanity reasons and repeatedly asserted that he had a disease called vitiligo, in which the immune system attacks cells that produce melanin, the pigment that determines skin color. The condition results in milky white spots.

For some patients, the discolored spots can spread entirely across the body, leaving only freckles of the original skin color, although this is not very common, experts said.

There is no surgery to lighten the skin. In the United States, a powerful medication called Benoquin, also known as monobenzene, can be used to treat extreme cases of vitiligo.

Michael Jackson’s single white glove was his trademark — an iconic image for a performer whose career constantly set, then redefined, pop culture trends. But it also was an early effort to mask a skin condition that he would struggle with for the rest of his life, say some who were close to him.

Do you know anyone that has Vitiligo?

Full story :CNN,CNN2

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