Treating Vitiligo with Photo Therapy & Tropical Treatment

Vitiligo is regarded as an autoimmune disease where a person’s immune system kills the melanocytes and requires vitiligo treatment in Delhi. Melanocytes are the one which produces pigments that is responsible for colouring the skin. Vitiligo patients are often found unable to deal with the antioxidant imbalance and harmless radicals in the body. These could be result into cell damage and even cell death.

Usually vitiligo people are healthy but there are a number of patients who have thyroid disease. It has been regarded that vitiligo and thyroid are interconnected. There are also very less cases when the vitiligo patients also have other autoimmune conditions, such as type 1 diabetes.

Vitiligo treatment clinic offers a number of treatments to restore the original skin color and even out the depigmented skin. The most usual treatment used to treat vitiligo is phototherapy or light therapy done with ultraviolet B (UVB) light. Under this treatment, the depigmented skin area is exposed to UVB light. The sessions may take place for several times a week and done only at a clinic.

Phototherapy vitiligo treatment in Delhi is often used with topical medications as combination therapy. Topical medications are the one which is applied on the skin. The topical medications may include steroids, topical calcineurin inhibitors (such as tacrolimus), or topical vitamin D analogues (such as calcipotriol). Psoralen is also a type of medication that used with phototherapy in previous times. In case of extensive depigmented patches, topical medications are also used with bleaching the unaffected skin. When all the treatments fail to work, vitiligo treatment clinic may suggest for skin grafting surgery.