Vitiligo treatment is not easy. It entails a lot of constancy and patience until results are achieved. As we have commented on other occasions, according to the information managed by the Association for Vitiligo Patients (Aspavit), up to 90% of sufferers do not...
According to data handled by the Association of Vitiligo Patients (ASPAVIT), 90% of the 900,000 people affected by vitiligo in Spain do not receive any kind of treatment. Vitiligo treatment aims to slow the depigmentation process of the skin and to repigment the...
We continue with our series of articles about vitiligo, in celebration of the World Vitiligo Day this upcoming 25th June. This time we will analyse the different treatment options. Vitiligo treatment has a double target. On the one hand, to stop the skin...
25% of those affected by vitiligo are children. In the majority of cases (between 70 and 80%), the first symptoms appear before the age of 30. The first symptoms in childhood are segmental, and often, as the white patches initially appear in generally non-visible...
The different lines of treatment for vitiligo are based on stopping the de-pigmentation of the skin and re-pigmenting affected areas. The choice of treatments is conditioned by the type of vitiligo suffered by each patient. Normally treatments are long and use a...