1, foods that can cause vitiligo recurrence or aggravate the condition should be avoided, such as onions, garlic, fish, shrimp, mutton, peppers, alcohol, etc.
2, vitiligo patients avoid eating spinach, spinach is a green vegetable, but green vegetables do not mean that vitiligo patients can eat, because spinach contains a lot of oxalic acid, it is easy to itch the affected area, but also affect the absorption of copper.
3. Vitiligo patients avoid eating acidic substances in their daily diet, such as popcorn processed in lead containers, which will affect the synthesis of melanin and delay the increase of melanin.
4, vitiligo diet should also try to eat less foods rich in vitamin C, because vitamin C can reduce the levels of serum copper and serum copper oxidase, affect the activity of tyrosinase, destroy the production of melanin, and interfere with the synthesis of skin melanin. Foods containing more vitamin C are: kiwi fruit, orange, coriander, hawthorn and so on.
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The harm of vitiligo:
1. Harm to social life: Vitiligo usually likes to occur in exposed parts, so the common parts are hands and face. After the appearance of white spots in these parts, it will usually have a great impact on patients' work and study, thus affecting their normal life.
2, mental health hazards: After suffering from vitiligo, many patients often have large emotional fluctuations because of some small things, and because of the white spots on the body, the patient's psychology will also bear a lot of pressure, so family members should often communicate with patients, don't let patients feel nervous and irritable.
Skin cancer: Patients with vitiligo generally have a weak resistance to ultraviolet rays, so patients should not be exposed to the sun at ordinary times to avoid skin cancer caused by ultraviolet rays.
4. Complications: The onset of vitiligo is closely related to some autoimmune diseases, so some vitiligo patients often suffer from certain diseases, such as diabetes, thyroid diseases, chronic adrenal hypofunction, chronic active hepatitis and so on.
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