Dr. Chunyu is here to answer that question.

Overall, vitiligo does not need to be avoided! Vitiligo does not need to be avoided! Vitiligo does not need to be avoided! It's important to say it three times.

We must have doubts, then why there are always people will say vitiligo can not eat tomatoes, to strictly avoid? There are many reasons, which has a lot to do with the culture of our Chinese medicine, this influence is too deep, the disease enters by the mouth, dietary supplements, food therapy, etc., from ancient times to the present thousands of years. No matter what disease we have, we will habitually ask the doctor: I have to eat this has to do with? Do I need to avoid food?

To understand the relationship between eating and vitiligo, we first need to understand a little bit about vitiligo.

Vitiligo is a condition in which the pigment-producing melanocytes in the basal layer of the skin are destroyed, resulting in melanin not being produced any more, and the skin becomes white.

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So why are the pigment cells in this skin being destroyed?

It is an immune disorder of the organism that attacks these melanocytes. Please note that it is a disorder of our immunity, not low immunity! So we don't need to take some immune-boosting medication, our immunity is disordered, not low, and some patients who blindly boost their immunity can aggravate their condition instead.

How should vitiligo be treated then?

To control the disease, we aim to regulate our immunity.

Immunity has a lot to do with our mood, the mood should be kept relaxed, do not be anxious; at the same time, sleep must be good, rest properly; appropriate physical exercise, aerobic exercise, etc..

But some people with vitiligo will say, I do seem to get worse when I eat something, does this need to be avoided?

Our immunity is certainly related to our diet, we eat sensibly and pay attention to the mix of nutrients, which will also help us to develop a normal immunity. If the condition rapidly worsens as soon as you eat something, it means that this substance will destroy the immunity of your organism, and we certainly can no longer eat it and need to avoid it.

But this conclusion can't be promoted, because everyone's constitution is different, some people are sensitive to this food, and some are not, which need to be discovered and summarized in our life. But the general conclusion, we can say that vitiligo patients do not need to avoid food.

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vitiligo

The term, derived from the Latin word yolk, is a polygenic genetic disorder in which vitiligo usually develops in childhood or adolescence, in10-30Peak incidence is reached at the age of 18 years, and in about half of the cases, at the20Onset before age.

clinical manifestation

Vitiligo is a refractory skin disease, manifested as localized or generalized pigment loss in the form of porcelain white patches, white patches of varying sizes, with clear boundaries and increased pigmentation at the edges, with no self-conscious symptoms. It can occur in all parts of the body, such as the eyes and ears of the pigment cells can also be involved. Therefore, vitiligo is a systemic disease that mainly violates skin pigmentation, but also can violate the whole very other pigment cells.

curing

At present, although there is no effective treatment for vitiligo, but if the patient can get early, reasonable treatment, most patients can achieve satisfactory results, and some of them can be completely restored to normal.

Dietary Considerations

In addition to the essential scientific treatment, of course, there are many aspects of diet that require our attention.

1. People with vitiligo should eat a light diet thattake less foodMeat, especially avoid shrimp, mutton, fish, in order to prevent the skin lesions caused by the aggravation of the disease and affect the recovery;
2. In addition, the need tomourningBamboo shoots and spinach, especially spinach, can easily aggravate the condition by causing the patient's lesions to itch;
3. fastedSpicy and irritating foods, such as alcohol, chili peppers, raw garlic, and pickles, and abstain from smoking and alcohol;
4. Eat less vitamin-containingCVegetables and fruits that are high in vitamins, such as hawthorn, prunes, and tomatoes, because vitaminCIt has the ability to reduce the level of copper ions and its oxidase in the serum of the body, which adversely affects the activity of tyrosinase, which in turn leads to the blockage of melanin synthesis in the skin, and has a great adverse effect on the recovery of vitiligo and the fading of white spots.
5. Vitiligo patients are livingYou can have more.Some foods rich in tyrosine and copper, zinc, iron and other substances, eat more walnuts, figs, melons, ripe apricots, ripe grapes and raisins and other fruits, can better improve the body's immune system, there is for vitiligo patients is helpful.

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Here's a diet guide to check out.

I. Do not eat what should not be eaten

Vitiligo patients must be like Wei Luo to their own hands, for the enemy will never be merciful, the patient for can not eat the food must be reported to such an attitude, can not eat resolutely do not eat.

1, rich in vitamin c food can not eat

Autumn winter dates began to market, sweet and sour, but sour dates, oranges, lemons and other foods contain a lot of vitamin C, vitamin C as a reducing agent, involved in the metabolism of the enzyme laminase, consuming too much will lead to the reduction of melanocytes, very detrimental to the recovery of vitiligo, naturally, can not be eaten.

2, glutathione-rich food as can not eat

Glutathione affects melanin production as much as vitamin C. Foods that contain vitamin C in general have a lot in common with glutathione rich foods, for example, sage fruit is very high in vitamin C. The same glutathione content is also high, so don't eat foods like onions, garlic and lamb.

3. Tobacco and alcohol are the most important things not to touch

If vitamin C-rich foods may affect the vitiligo condition, then tobacco and alcohol can be said to be directly harmful to the vitiligo condition, the harm of tobacco and alcohol is self-evident, not only to the human organs to produce irritating injury, but also directly stimulate the skin white spots, affecting the recovery of white spots, if the drinking is not appropriate and long-term smoking will also have a great deal of damage to the immune system, destroying the immune system.

Second, these foods can be eaten more

Patients should look at the relationship between the pros and cons of food. Foods are mutually exclusive, since and unfavorable to the vitiligo condition of the food, will be conducive to the recovery of the condition of the food, and these foods patients can eat more.

1、Rich in copper

Copper is an important element involved in the body's metabolism, the lack of copper this kind of trace elements will cause vitiligo, since the lack of that will make up for it, snails, mussels, lean meat and all kinds of soy products are rich in copper.

2. Foods rich in complexine

The activity of laminase directly affects the synthesis of melanin, and it is crucial to improve the activity of laminase, such as beans, animal liver, peanuts and walnuts are foods that can replenish the body's laminates and minerals, and patients should consume more of them.

3、Black for black

Black beans and black fungus are the appearance of black food, for replenishing melanin has a good help, this principle is very much like the Chinese medicine in the less white head can eat black sesame to supplement the same, pay attention to the color to complement the color.

Diet strategy can help patients to correct the daily incorrect eating habits and preferences, will also be a certain degree of assistance in the treatment of vitiligo, I hope that patients can grasp this strategy, early recovery.

We all know that people with vitiligo have a lot of dietary taboos, and if you're not careful and eat something you shouldn't, your white spots will worsen!

1, you can not eat onions, garlic, fish, shrimp, chili peppers and other spicy and stimulating food to reduce the intake of glutathione-rich foods

2, can not eat monkey peaches, oranges, grapefruit, lemon, tomatoes and other foods rich in vitamin C, vitamin C will make the serum copper oxidase level is reduced, affecting the tyrosinase activity interferes with the melanin

3、No smoking or drinking

These are the foods that people with vitiligo should not eat, and you must remember to never be greedy.

Vitiligo requires three things in your diet:

First, avoid partiality and picky eating

Bad eating habits such as partiality and picky eating will make the vitiligo patient's body nutrient intake is insufficient, easy to cause the lack of trace elements, affecting the normal synthesis of melanin. Therefore, the patient should pay attention to develop regular meals, balanced with the good habits, which is conducive to the full absorption of nutrients.

Second, avoid spicy and stimulating food

Vitiligo patients should try to avoid spicy and irritating foods, such as wine, chili, raw garlic, mutton, or some seafood that can easily cause skin diseases, otherwise it is easy to aggravate the condition, which is not conducive to treatment.

Third, avoid eating without restraint

Diet uncontrolled, irregular living for vitiligo patients' health is very unfavorable, but also affect the treatment. Patients in the daily diet should be timed in the right amount, not hunger and satiety disorder, overeating, so as not to damage the spleen and stomach. The patient should also pay attention to is not excessive consumption of nourishing food, even if it is conducive to the recovery of the food, should not be excessive consumption, so as not to affect the treatment of vitiligo.

Clinical studies have found that spicy and irritating foods (such as chili peppers, onions, garlic, etc.), meat and fishy foods, and some seafood (e.g., seafood), are what vitiligo patients need to eat less of.

Foods you can eat are:

1, some contain a lot of tyrosine, zinc, iron and other nutrients of vegetables, such as carrots, squash, asparagus, fungus, eggplant, peas, green beans, soybeans and so on. Because vitiligo is a hypopigmented skin disease, its main cause is the melanocyte tyrosinase activity within the hypopigmented or disappeared.

2, some black food, such as black rice, black beans, black sesame, purple cabbage, kelp and so on. Because the symptom of vitiligo is white spots on the skin, the cause is the lack of melanin. The so-called lack of what to make up for what, so eat some black food, there belongs to the recovery of white spots.

3, some help to enhance the immune food, such as yam. Because vitiligo autoimmune theory that the onset of vitiligo and autoimmune related. The yam is a medicinal value of the drug, with nutritional tonic, tonic pulse, cough expectorant, scheduling microcirculation, enhancement of immunity, etc., to enhance the patient's immunity, improve microcirculation, regulate the internal environment, has a great benefit.

　　Vitiligo patients daily life diet for the skin recovery has a great help, it is recommended that patients with a balanced diet, scientific treatment, otherwise not only will not recover, but also aggravate the difficulty of treatment, that vitiligo patients eat what can make the white spots faster? The first thing you need to do is to take a look at the introduction.

　　[Vitiligo gets better faster - dietary therapy]

　　1, the groundnut contains fiber fluffy easy to digest, can promote gastrointestinal motility, easy to defecate. A good way to eat groundnut is baked groundnut, and even the skin with baked, eaten together with the flavor of the double building sweet, suitable for vitiligo patients to eat.

　　2, vitiligo patient's diet has mung bean heat detoxification, dispel heat diuretic, clear the Department of thirst, drink more mung bean soup is also vitiligo diet treatment, and mung bean soup is conducive to detoxification, decongestive, but the cooking time is not easy to be too long, so as not to destroy the organic acid vitamins and reduce the role of suitable for vitiligo patients to eat.

　　3, oatmeal can slip the bowel, prompting fecal volume, water increase, with fiber to promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, play the role of laxative and detoxification. Steamed oats into juice as a drink to drink is a good choice when stirring can also be added to replace his food, such as apples, raisins both nutritious and can promote defecation, suitable for vitiligo patients to eat.

　　4, can promote blood circulation in the body, water metabolism diuretic swelling effect, help to improve edema type obesity. In vitiligo diet, you can consume more barley, barley is a good detoxification method. Directly after the barley with boiling water, suitable for personal taste to add a little sugar, suitable for vitiligo patients to eat.

　　What can vitiligo patients eat to make the white spots better faster? The details of the introduction is these, I hope you find the condition in time, timely to the hospital to do the examination, identify the cause and condition of the symptomatic treatment, otherwise the condition is not only will not be recovered, and even induced complications, I wish you an early recovery.

Regarding whether vitiligo patients can eat fruits or not, Neng Neng brother in the process of organizing books, have seen different views for patients to refer to:

Among them, Vitiligo - Li Guangzhi - Part VI - Preventive Health Care - Section VII - Should Vitiligo Patients Avoid Diet? What are the dietary principles for vitiligo patients?P139 says:

Can people with vitiligo eat fruits? Vitiligo patients can eat fruit, but to avoid vitamin C content is too high fruit intake. Excessive vitamin C can hinder the intestinal absorption of copper, zinc ions, tyrosinase enzyme in the lack of copper, zinc, enzyme activity will be reduced and can not synthesize melanin, vitiligo patients should not eat vitamin C-rich acidic fruits. Vitamin C-rich fruits are concentrated orange juice, kiwi, hawthorn, strawberries, fresh dates, tomatoes, grapes, fresh chestnuts, mango and so on. And low vitamin C content of fruits in order for cantaloupe, pear, lemon juice, pomegranate, loquat, watermelon, plums, apples, sugar cane and so on. Therefore, vitiligo patients can eat fruit, but just do not eat or minimize the vitamin C-rich fruits, some acidic fruits can be eaten, such as lemon juice and processed tomato salsa, hawthorn preserves, and so on.

On the question of whether chili peppers can eat, can can brother in the process of organizing books, see a lot of different points of view, which "uncovered the skin," the truth of the "disease," Chapter VI, Section VII of the sick do not avoid food, bad doctor hand page 162 said:

The ordinary people do not have vitiligo this disease, vitamin C can be eaten, beef and mutton, chili peppers and so on is also completely can eat, eat something is not lead to this disease, like the wind itself should not lead to a fire, if you are susceptible to this disease, or already have this disease, and then eat this thing is just like a fire after you hang a little bit of the wind, it will be fire by the wind, adding insult to injury, don't! Don't indulge your appetite.

The normal operation of the body's various functions need to consume enough nutrition to guarantee. The regulation of diet will have a certain impact on all aspects of human function, vitiligo because belongs to a kind of treatment cycle is long, many patients in the long cycle of treatment will also hope to use a variety of ways to accelerate the treatment of white spots. Vitiligo is a complex condition, when the dietary problems, vitiligo condition will be a large area of proliferation, serious harm to the patient's physical and mental health.

　　The symptoms of vitiligo are due to the lack of micronutrients. Generally speaking, vitiligo patients' dietary regulation will start from increasing immunity and eating foods that can promote the production of melanocytes. However, whether it is from the immune system or eat food that can promote the production of melanocytes, it can only play a role in regulating the body. Dietary modifications can only control the spread of vitiligo and deterioration of the speed, but the patient can not rely on dietary modifications to make the white spots fade away. The synthesis of melanin needs enough trace elements, patients should be supplemented in moderation.

　　Adopting good dietary habits can stabilize the condition of vitiligo. Dietary regimen can only regulate the white spots, and can not completely remove the white spots, so for the white spots or to use scientific treatment methods, professional treatment to completely get rid of the white spots. Poor diet will cause the patient's body in all aspects are not adapted, the patient should do a good job of dietary care.

Vitiligo patients must be careful in the treatment, experts pointed out: vitiligo patients should never be picky in the diet, try to eat more diverse foods. As long as you are not picky, the human body can obtain a full range of nutrients, which is an important way to maintain health. Diet should not be one-sided, to meat and vegetarian blending, coarse and fine connection, can not just eat refined rice and white noodles, chicken, duck, fish and meat. Correctly carry out food supplement and medicinal tonic. The medicine is necessary to have a doctor's counseling, dietary supplements should also be based on the condition and the function of the spleen and stomach appropriate use, such as milk soy milk, chocolate and other nutrients, will cause the epigastric distension, and even do not want to eat, the patient must not be the case, so as to avoid vitiligo appear other complications.

　　Each kind of food, contains the trace elements are not the same, some supplements such as ginseng royal jelly, gum blood punch, etc., taste more sweet and greasy obstruction of the stomach, long time to serve can be born wet and hot, and therefore must be based on the condition of the little me, moderation into the supplement. This is the second point of vitiligo patients need to pay attention to the problem. In addition to not picky, patients also need to care about the rationality of the diet. 只要这样才干对病况有协助。 白癫风患者平常饮食宜清淡而富于养分，关于富含维生素的食物尽可能少吃或不吃，对过酸和过辣的食物也要加以在意点，这样才能将白癜风早日的治好。

　　Through a lot of methods can regulate their own situation, but also according to my spleen and stomach transportation ability of the strength of Li have to choose. Can be based on the patient's tongue changes to adjust the diet, because the tongue is outside the shoulder and stomach candidates, through the investigation of the tongue, can counsel the patient to choose a reasonable diet. Moderation of diet. Chinese medicine thinks: the spleen and stomach is the foundation of the latter day, the source of qi and blood biochemistry. If the spleen and stomach are damaged, the health condition of the body will be reduced and other diseases will be easily caused. Particularly should be concerned about the point is that the patient's family is afraid of the patient's nutrients can not, excessive let the patient eat tonic food or should not eat food, the results are not only not beneficial, but harmful, so the patient must pay attention to it in a timely manner.