Most doctors will tell you that loss of colour is the only noticeable #vitiligo-symptom. However, I always noticed that the skin on my vitiligo lesions was much more prone to natural exfoliation than the rest of my skin. If I rubbed the de-pigmented skin firmly with my hand every week […]
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Is vitiligo beautiful? It can be. If you doubt that vitiligo can be beautiful, then take a look at the photos on Steve Hargadon’s wonderful Uniquely Beautiful vitiligo collage. You will soon see what I mean. The many and varied patterns of vitiligo in these pictures seem to turn the […]
How much time do you spend doing this? Not everyone with vitiligo allows it to dominate their thoughts. I admire those individuals who are able to put their white patches into healthy perspective and simply get on with their lives. However, I can’t begin to estimate how much time I […]
In my previous two blog posts I described how to use natural henna as a self-tan on white vitiligo patches. This is something I have recently experimented with as I still have a few freckled areas of white skin on my hands and feet… Even though the pigment on the […]
It’s been over 4 years (at the time of writing this post) since my natural skin colour started returning. (Thanks to a nutritional approach that I stumbled on more or less by accident) And, even now, my vitiligo recovery is still continuing. Since 2010, virtually all of my previously white […]
A lesser known fact about depigmentation I came across this fascinating article by James J Nordlund today. It was 3 years old at the time of publishing this post). But the information is certainly not out of date. I find that a lot of vitiligo information available online is repetitive […]
Voltaire (1694-1778) said “The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.” If you are re-pigmenting naturally, as I have done, you’ll know that nature takes her time. It’s taken me 3 years but at least it’s been faster than waiting for a wonder-drug! If […]
Virtually every website and medical leaflet on the subject recommends to vitiligo sufferers that they use sunscreen to prevent their un-pigmented skin from burning. What most of them don’t say is that we may make matters worse by following this advice indiscriminately. Most sunscreens are full of synthetic chemical ingredients […]
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, […]
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 back 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 […]
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 […]