With no harmful side effects How do you react when someone makes a statement that you find hard to believe? A statement that sounds utterly ridiculous, irrational or unlikely like, for example, “Laughter could improve your vitiligo.” You might (rather fittingly) respond by saying “You’re the one having a laugh, […]
Treatments & Solutions
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What is it and why do most specialists prefer it? If you stay abreast of the medical literature you may have heard of combination therapy for vitiligo (sometimes called polytherapy). Most experts seem to agree that this approach is more effective than using just one type of treatment in isolation […]
An organic way to heal For hundreds (if not thousands) of years people with vitiligo have dreamt of being cured. Quite literally dreamt, if I am anything to go by. I remember waking up with that dream still fresh in my mind. It seemed to my half asleep brain that, […]
Whole-person therapy for a whole-person condition Vitiligo is one of those poorly understood conditions that defies simple explanation and simple treatment. Until quite recently it received scant attention from health providers and researchers. In fact, most doctors believed it was a harmless cosmetic disorder. It had no cure and was […]
Changing your skin colour: reasons and risks What are skin-whitening (a.k.a. skin-lightening or skin-bleaching) treatments? Quite simply, they are products or procedures that lighten the colour of skin. The clue, of course, is in the name. But don’t be fooled into thinking that something with such a self-explanatory description always […]
Formulations for health and / or beauty? Anyone familiar with the story of my “accidental vitiligo recovery” will know that I attribute my re-pigmentation (over a decade ago) to several nutritional supplements. And that one of these was pure collagen powder. Exactly how collagen may have helped was the subject […]
Treat your stress, treat your skin When we think about vitiligo therapies, we usually think in terms of physical treatments. Oral and topical medicines plus phototherapy spring to mind… As well as alternative approaches like nutritional, herbal, traditional and holistic remedies. Diverse as they are, what these therapies have in […]
A story of vitiligo management Once upon a time (not very long ago) hardly anyone knew hardly anything about a hardly talked-about condition. That condition was called vitiligo. Then, very gradually, people actually did start to talk about it. They learned more about it too… much more. But they didn’t […]
Animals help reduce stress and anxiety Pet therapy for vitiligo? Are you kidding? Well, I know it sounds unlikely that keeping animals could help your skin condition. But bear with me (no bear pun intended). The idea for this rather unusual vitiligo blog topic came to me in two ways… […]
Body art and micropigmentation for white patches Tattoos have never been so popular. Once the preserve of sailors, manual labourers and bikers (almost exclusively of the masculine gender) they are now considered a unisex and mainstream fashion statement by people all ages and backgrounds. And currently one of the hottest […]
5 reasons to nurture your creativity Do you have vitiligo or perhaps another long-term condition? Maybe you have different sorts of concerns or difficulties that tend to dominate your thoughts or cause you to struggle with aspects of your life. If so, I would love to know whether or not […]
A safe gel that can definitely help to re-pigment the skin I never used to have much faith in topical vitiligo treatments because my successful re-pigmentation has been based on a nutritional approach. So it was a case of healing from the inside out, rather than from the outside in. However, […]
Thanks to everyone who has been willing to share their re-pigmentation stories This month’s post is just a quick one, as so many people are on their holidays at the moment. (And if you are taking a break from your gadgets you may not even see this!) I shall also […]
Healing skin by switching on our self-repair system In part 1 of this blog I posed the question “Can sleep cure vitiligo?“ Or more accurately, “might lack of sleep be a factor in the development of certain chronic disorders, including vitiligo?” And the answer was almost certainly yes. What prompted […]
It’s enough to make you go grey! If you are worried about white vitiligo hair, then you may be interested in the following… A few days ago a reader posted a really interesting comment on a hair dye article I published a while back. She shared how her vitiligo started […]
Or else they imitate nature I am a big believer in the healing power of nature. I think that the best vitiligo therapies are natural… Or else they imitate nature. And will return to that subject in a moment. But first, I want to begin, in apparently contradictory fashion, by […]
The deeper I delve into the subject of nutritional supplementation for vitiligo (and general health, for that matter), the more I realise that getting it right is a real balancing act. A lot of people mistakenly believe that eating a varied diet provides enough good nutrition to maintain optimum health. […]
A review of Hairprint Most people think about vitiligo recovery in terms of restoring pigment to the white patches it causes on our skin. But the other big question is “Is it possible to turn vitiligo hair back to its natural colour?” For some people, this is just as important […]
Safer than sunbathing, as long as you choose a good UV lamp and use it properly Following on from last week’s blog post, I’d like to answer the question, how safe is homeUV phototherapy? The reason being that it is a serious medical treatment and needs to be approached with […]
By treating the roots or the fruits? Most of us whose lives have been adversely affected by #vitiligo are keen to know what causes it (and even keener to know if there will ever be a definitive #cure). The potential for a single cure seems poor because all evidence points to […]
Takes more than a knee-jerk reaction Today, we all probably know more about diet, nutrition and health than at any time in history, due, in the main, to modern media and the miracle of search engines. And yet (no doubt for the very same reasons) most of us have a […]