Vitiligo is a very common skin disease. The main reason is the lack of pigment in human skin. The patient's skin will turn white. Vitiligo will appear in every part of the human body, especially young women. When this disease occurs, this skin disease will affect a person's appearance and is very harmful, so it needs timely treatment. The main treatment methods are as follows.

First, treatment

1. Drug treatment

(1) Psoralen and its derivatives such as methoxsalen are taken orally and then exposed to ultraviolet light.

(2) Long-term use of large doses of vitamins such as vitamin B, vitamin C, and vitamin P.

(3) It can be treated with copper-containing drugs such as 0.5 copper sulfate solution orally.

(4) Immunomodulator levamisole is taken orally, freeze-dried Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is given intramuscularly, bovine placenta is taken orally, etc.

(5) Local application of skin irritants can cause an inflammatory reaction in the skin and promote pigment hyperplasia. Commonly used ones include 30% psoralen tincture, nitrogen mustard alcohol, phenol (pure carbolic acid), and 25-50% trichloride. Acetic acid, cantharides tincture, etc. This method is only suitable for small skin lesions, and bullae may appear on the skin lesions after application.

(6) Corticosteroids: Various corticosteroids such as beclomethasone propionate ointment, halometasone cream, triamcinolone urea ointment and other local encapsulation treatments.

2. Surgical treatment

Patients with stable skin lesions without progression can undergo autologous epidermal transplantation if necessary.

3. Depigmentation therapy

Suitable for those with large skin lesions, exceeding more than half of the body surface area, 3 to 20 hydroquinone monoanisole cream can be applied externally