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How does interruption of treatment in winter affect vitiligo?

Winter is a good season for treating white spots. Interrupting the treatment is not a wise choice because vitiligo is a persistent skin disease, and it usually takes two to three months of treatment before the white spots can be seen to lighten. Suddenly terminating the treatment is likely to cause the white spots to make a comeback as the medication wears off and they will even be worse than before the treatment. Seeing the white patches spreading, many patients will undergo treatment again. The new treatment plan requires patients to invest more time and energy to control the condition.

In winter, as the temperature drops, some patients realize that the white spots on their bodies are less symptomatic, thinking that the condition is "getting better" on its own, so they stop treatment, which is actually a wrong approach.

Winter vitiligo is not appearing "better" but "latent"!

Vitiligo is not only the epidermis of the white spots so simple, but a kind of human organs, blood, immunity and other "internal environment" related to the comprehensive disease. The winter vitiligo is in the stabilization period, manifested in the human skin on the white spots to reduce the illusion, however, the patient's internal organs, blood, immunity and other "internal environment" of the damage is still increasing, tyrosinase activity is also in the day and night continue to decline, melanin in the invisible apocalypse. If the winter does not adhere to the treatment, once the next spring and summer, the body's skin metabolism accelerated, vitiligo will quickly spread, causing harm.

Therefore, for the winter vitiligo self "better" phenomenon, the patient do not just look at the surface phenomenon on the discontinuation of treatment, should follow the doctor's advice, scientific treatment of vitiligo, in order to restore health as soon as possible.

Vitiligo treatment is a long-term process, the patient do not arbitrarily stop treatment, and vitiligo treatment is ineffective to see whether the patient has a treatment of vitiligo do not diagnose, do not type, do not find the cause of blind treatment, only know that he suffered from vitiligo disease see the medicine on the wrong treatment methods for vitiligo disease or to go to the hospital to do the examination and diagnosis of the treatment of vitiligo.

Winter is the season when the condition of vitiligo is more stable, and treating vitiligo at this time can prevent the condition from developing further. The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine says that treatment should follow the changes of the four seasons, winter is the time of collection, the condition can be effectively controlled, the development speed will be slower. But wait until spring and summer, vitiligo is easy to be stimulated by the outside world, the condition of the recurrence of serious, and will even aggravate the difficulty of treatment. So the suggestion is generally to suggest that patients in the winter can not be ignored treatment.

Although the vitiligo condition is more stable in winter, but it is easy to appear homoeopathic reaction because of the problem of dry and cracked skin. If the white spots are part of the hands and feet, dry cracks in the winter do not take care of the situation, it is very easy to appear isomorphic reaction, so, in such a season is to do a good job of skin moisturizing work.

At the same time, winter is cold, many people will pay attention to keep warm, wear clothes will be more, but must pay attention to, choose comfortable loose clothing, such as cotton, linen or silk clothing, because other like leather texture thicker clothing is easy because of the friction with the skin, caused by vitiligo isomorphic reaction, resulting in aggravation of the condition. The best choice of underwear is breathable, sweat better.

Although the winter vitiligo condition is more stable, but some patients because of the physical condition as well as the different symptoms, but also prone to aggravate the phenomenon, so it is even more necessary to carry out the treatment, not blindly interrupt or stop the treatment.

In addition to continue to receive treatment, in ordinary times also need to pay attention to diet, winter cold, many people like to eat some spicy food to warm up, but for vitiligo patients are not advocated. Because spicy food is easy to stimulate vitiligo, leading to aggravation of the condition, the phenomenon of white spots appear to spread.

You also need to do some physical exercise and moderate exercise to improve your immunity.

Some patients are of the opinion that interrupting treatment for a period of time and catching up later should not have much impact. But in fact, due to the lack of continuity of treatment, the recovery process of white spots is interrupted. If the function of one's own melanocytes is not fully restored and the suppression of the treatment is lost, the white spots may spread again. If the condition is in the stabilization period, the condition may not deteriorate, but also prolong the treatment time, and it will take more energy to remedy.

The interruption of treatment has a great impact on the course of the disease, if the interruption of treatment after the treatment, its efficacy is not as good as has been adhering to the treatment of the efficacy of the treatment, the course of the disease will be prolonged, so vitiligo patients, if there is no special important things, must go to the hospital regularly to review, can not arbitrarily interrupt the treatment, so as not to aggravate the condition, prolonging the course of the disease, vitiligo is unfavorable to the recovery of vitiligo.

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