It can affect the skin on any part of your body, your hair, and the inside of your mouth. Vitiligo is a condition that results in the loss of skin color in blotches. Its severity and rate of color loss are unpredictable.
Vitiligo, which affects nearly 1% of the world’s population, results in the destruction of the cells that give you the color of your skin, known as melanocytes, which then stop producing the skin pigment known as melanin, which causes areas of your skin to lose color or turn white. The condition is not life-threatening or contagious, but it can be stressful or make you feel self-conscious.
Though it can develop at any age, vitiligo frequently manifests before the age of 20.
The vitiligo you have may cover any of the following, depending on its type:
·Many parts of your body.The discolored patches of this most prevalent type of vitiligo, known as generalized vitiligo, frequently progress symmetrically on corresponding body parts.
·Only one side or part of your body.Segmental vitiligo, which typically starts earlier in life, progresses for a year or two before stopping.
·One or only a few areas of your body.The name for this kind of vitiligo is localized (focal).
It’s difficult to predict how your disease will develop; occasionally, patches stop forming without treatment; typically, pigment loss spreads until it affects the majority of your skin; and sporadically, the skin’s color returns.
Causes
Doctors don’t know why the pigment-producing cells (melanocytes) fail or die, which causes the affected patches of skin to become lighter or white. Vitiligo happens when the pigment-producing cells die or stop producing melanin, the pigment that gives your skin, hair, and eyes color.
An illness where your immune system targets and kills the skin’s melanocytes
· Family history (heredity)
A precipitating circumstance, such as a sunburn, stress, or exposure to chemicals used in industry
Symptoms
Patchy loss of skin color is the primary symptom of vitiligo, and it typically first manifests on sun-exposed areas like the hands, feet, arms, face, and lips.
Vitiligo signs include:
Spotty skin color fading
Early graying or whitening of your eyebrows, beard, or hair on your scalp.
A loss of color in the mucous membranes, the tissues that line your mouth and nose
Loss of or a change in the retina’s (the eyeball’s inner layer) color
to:
An illness where your immune system targets and kills the skin’s melanocytes
· Family history (heredity)
A precipitating circumstance, such as a sunburn, stress, or exposure to chemicals used in industry
Complications
Vitiligo patients could be more vulnerable to:
· Social or psychological distress
· Sunburn and skin cancer
Eye conditions like iris (iritis) inflammation
· Hearing loss
HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDIES
When it comes to vitiligo, there are many effective medicines available in homoeopathy, but the choice depends on the individuality of the patient, taking mental and physical symptoms into consideration. Homoeopathy is currently a rapidly growing system that is used throughout the world. Its strength lies in its evident effectiveness as it takes a holistic approach towards the sick individual by promoting inner balance at mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical levels.
BACILLINUM 200There is a history of tuberculosis or a family history of tuberculosis, there is great weakness with fever, emaciation is noticeable, and both groin glands are enlarged—Bacillinum is best for vitiligo patients who frequently experience respiratory infections.
CALCAREA CARB 200—Calcarea carb is a great treatment for vitiligo, which is characterized by milky spots on the skin and excessive sweating, especially on the head and chest while sleeping, as well as a strong craving for eggs and other indigestible items like pencils, dirt, coal, and chalk. All bodily discharges, including stools, sweat, saliva, and body odor, are excessive and sour.
GRAPHITES 30The best candidates for graphites are obese women who have a history of delayed menstruation, habitual constipation, scanty, pale, late menses, violent colic, are depressed, weep at the sound of music, have unhealthy suppurations on their skin, and have cracks and fissures at the tips of their fingers, nipples, labia, anus, and between their eyebrows.
SEPIA 30White patches are seen on the face, lips, and scalp. Sepia is another effective treatment for vitiligo, particularly in women and children. In addition, constitutional symptoms of Sepia are also taken into consideration. Sepia patients are easily agitated, sensitive, and highly irritable. They are easily offended and miserable. Irritability alternating with indifference. Indifference to her family members and those who loved her. Aversion to family and those loved best.
Another distinguishing trait is the irregularity of the menstrual cycle, which can be early or late, scanty, and painful in young girls with weak uteruses and a sense that everything is about to pass through the vagina.
The patient has a special yearning for indigestible things like chalk, earth, etc., especially in children. They have a craving for fat and salt. Nitric acid is effective when the white patches are seen at the muco-cutaneous junction, especially more at the angle of the mouth, eyes, nose, nipples, glans penis, vulva, etc. Discolored zigzag patches with irregular edges are seen on the skin.
SULPHUR 200Lean, stoop-shouldered people who walk and sit stooping; walk stooping like old men. They cannot bear to be washed, or bathed. Unhealthy skin. Dirty, filthy people susceptible to skin affections. Vitiligo from suppressed skin diseases, fevers, diarrhea, jaundice, etc. Burning sensation is characteristic to sulfur. Burning of the skin.
THUJA OCCIDENTALIS 200Thuja occidentalis is the top recommended remedy for the negative effects of vaccinations. It is adapted to hydrogenous constitution., acts well in very fleshy persons, dark complexion, black hair, and unhealthy skin. Profuse, sour smelling, fetid sweat at night. Sweat on exposed parts only or all over except head, when he sleeps, stops when he wakes.
BARYTA MURIATICA 30The patient has small spots and whitish patches all over his head, nape of the neck, abdomen, and thighs, and these white spots are frequently accompanied by itchy eruptions on the exposed parts of the body. Barta mur. is the best medication for vitiligo having small spots.
PSORALEA CORYL. 3XThe oil is applied externally to treat vitiligo and should not be exposed to sunlight for at least an hour after application.
STAPHYSAGRIA 30When vitiligo affects the tip of the penis, staphysagria is recommended to treat the itching, scratching, and shifting of the itching.
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