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Can you live a normal life with vitiligo?
While the skin disorder vitiligo isn’t harmful or life-threatening, it can certainly change your life. Not only do you have to manage its physical symptoms—patches of smooth white skin known as macules—you may experience a significant emotional and psychological toll.
How does vitiligo affect you mentally?
Higher levels of depression and social anxiety have been reported in patients with vitiligo. Patients may also experience low self-esteem, social stigmatization, shame, avoidance of intimacy, adjustment disorder, fear, suicidal ideation, and other psychiatric morbidities.
What is it like living with vitiligo?
While most people living with vitiligo are usually physically well and do not feel any discomfort on their skin, Dr Lim Chun Siong from the DTAP skin clinic said that the emotional and psychological impact can be hard on them as they may endure discrimination, struggle with self-acceptance and other social challenges.
What foods to avoid if you have vitiligo?
Here are some of the top problem foods that some people with vitiligo cite:
- alcohol.
- blueberries.
- citrus.
- coffee.
- curds.
- fish.
- fruit juice.
- gooseberries.
Does vitiligo cause other health problems?
People with vitiligo may be more likely to get other autoimmune diseases (in which the body’s immune system causes it to attack itself), such as hypothyroidism, diabetes, pernicious anemia, Addison’s disease, and alopecia areata.
What are the beginning signs of vitiligo?
Classical vitiligo can begin anytime after birth and often appears as a white spot without other symptoms on a background of normally pigmented skin. The only detectable change in affected areas is the loss of color, which can begin with lightening but will progress to complete loss of color.
What is a good treatment for vitiligo?
Light therapy. Phototherapy with narrow band ultraviolet B (UVB) has been shown to stop or slow the progression of active vitiligo.
What is the best food for vitiligo_vitiligo disease treatment?
– Alcohol – Blueberries – Coffee – Citrus – Pickles – Pomegranate – Red meats