Raising awareness of this misunderstood skin condition is not part of a celebrity’s job description. But it does help. Most sources on the subject estimate the percentage of the global population with #vitiligo is between 0.5% and 2%. This does not exactly make it a common condition (like eczema, for example, […]
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How did I get these white spots? Vitiligo seems like such a mysterious and unexpected disorder when it first starts to develop that that most sufferers, understandably, wonder: how did I get these white spots on my skin? Where on earth did they come from and why has this happened […]
Common sense advice from The Vit Pro If you have read my Top 10 Tips and would like some more common sense vitiligo advice… Here are 5 more vitiligo tips 🙂 1. Drink plenty of water My first tip is to ensure you drink PLENTY of good quality water (bottled […]
This is a picture of me in 2010, showing the first few freckles that heralded my re-pigmentation. As you can see, the only areas of normal skin colour were on my shoulders and the outermost portion of my upper arms. Like most people with widespread vitiligo, I always dreaded not, […]
Drinking my Five a Day helped my vitiligo When I spotted this great video (below) from TheNickFever I was really excited to see someone else successfully using natural green foods to treat their vitiligo. Well done, Nick, and congratulations! Thanks for sharing your experience of adding a high quality daily […]
I only realised when I read this article on the subject that leukoderma is not just another name for vitiligo. (Contrary to popular belief .) Vitiligo is, in fact, just one type of leukoderma. Leukoderma (or leucoderma, as it is sometimes spelled) is just an umbrella term. It applies […]
Recent research suggests that people who – like me – have brown eyes are more likely to have vitiligo than those with blue or grey eyes, which is quite intriguing. The same study also found that vitiligo sufferers are less likely to develop skin cancer. This is at least some […]
Continuing this series about the links between vitiligo and other diseases, this post is about the adrenal glands. Although it is common knowledge that stress can be a trigger for vitiligo, the possible role of the adrenals in pigment loss is not something we often hear about. So most vitiligo […]
A chance to contribute A new health show for the Discovery Channel is hoping to raise awareness of a wide variety of medical conditions in order for viewers to gain a clearer understanding of what it’s like to live with these conditions. The show will explore the symptoms associated with […]
A short history of perfume Humans have used perfume since the very earliest civilisations. Historians tell us that in ancient times burning resins, spices and sweet herbs was the sole preserve of priests. It was this ceremonial creation of fragrances that eventually gave perfume its name, courtesy of the ancient […]
Vitiligo has been associated with numerous endocrine disorders. (That is, disorders relating to the hormones and the glands that make and secrete them into the bloodstream.) One of the most common associations is with thyroid disease. This association is quite well established. But the exact reason for it is still not […]
The more I read about successful vitiligo treatments, the more I realise that the same themes keep recurring. Of course no completely successful treatment has yet been discovered. If it had, the drug companies would be going wild and raking in the dosh. However, the approach that I have been […]
It was about this time 4 years ago that I first tried a particular couple of #nutritionalsupplements in the not-very-confident hope that they might help my #vitiligo – even though nothing else in 50 years ever had helped. I came across them in the product range of one of the […]
Is acidity making your vitiligo worse ? Having recovered from widespread vitiligo, using a nutritional approach involving green superfoods, I am a big fan of “food therapy”. I am sure that my re-pigmentation is due, in part, to the massively high levels of antioxidants in these foods. But I suspect […]
Will 2014 be the year of the vitiligo cure? An estimated 2% of the world’s population will be ecstatic if the answer to this question proves to be yes. There is no doubt that one of these years (and it’s getting sooner all the time!) researchers will come up trumps and […]
I just read a very interesting piece of research on how vitiligo sufferers feel about themselves and how they feel their appearance is perceived by others. Unjustified though this clearly is, it seems that a lot of people with vitiligo feel stigmatised and this is one of the reasons why […]
Check out this inspiring and uplifting blog called Perfectly Flawed. It’s “a network for persons dealing with Vitiligo. …dedicated to focusing on issues surrounding the disease. The goal is to help not only people with Vitiligo but to help the world understand, embrace, and empower their inner beauty. This network will […]
I have found myself offering a lot of advice to other vitiligo sufferers since re-pigmenting unexpectedly 3 years ago. Most of that advice has been in response to specific questions about my treatment. But I also have another piece of advice to offer based on my own experience and that […]
As promised in part 1 of this blog post, I am going to share a story of self-tanning using henna… My aim being to help camouflage white vitiligo patches. I discovered that this works quite well as a safe, chemical-free self-tan when I started to use it to colour my hair. I […]
For many years I relied on self-tanning products to camouflage my white patches… And on hair dyes to hide my grey hairs. I now shudder to think about the harm that repeated use of these products may have caused. Not to mention how they almost certainly contributed to the severity […]
If you have #vitiligo and have not yet come across a site called (appropriately enough!) http://www.ihavevitiligo.com do check it out. It belongs to Keith Evans from California and is a fabulous resource full of inspiration, information and common sense. Thanks for a great site, Keith – keep up the good work. We […]