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| | Questions and Answers about Vitiligo |
 | | The foundation strives to locate, inform, and counsel vitiligo patients and their families; to increase public awareness and concern for the vitiligo patient; to broaden the concern for the patient within the medical community; and to encourage, promote, and fund increased scientific and clinical research on the cause, treatment, and ultimate cure. | | | The goal of treating vitiligo is to restore the function of the skin and to improve the patient's appearance. | | | People with this disorder can experience emotional stress, particularly if vitiligo develops on visible areas of the body, such as the face, hands, arms, feet, or on the genitals. |
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http://www.niams.nih.gov/hi/topics/vitiligo/vitiligo.htm
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| | A.R.E. Health & Rejuvenation Research Center - The Cayce Health Database |
| | Standard medical therapy for vitiligo consists mainly at disguising the condition and protecting against sunburn with sunscreen. | | | From a medical perspective, vitiligo is an incurable condition of unknown causation. | | | Vitiligo can occur at any stage in life and is not contagious. |
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http://www.edgarcayce.org/health/database/chdata/data/prviti3a.html
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| | Vitiligo |
| | Vitiligo is a skin condition whose exact cause is unknown. | | | It is believed that vitiligo is an autoimmune disorder (autoimmune means the bodies own immune system turns on itself). | | | Another method of psoralen treatment, used occasionally for children or patients with small, scattered vitiligo patches, involves the application of a very dilute solution of the drug directly to the affected skin area. |
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http://www.aocd.org/skin/dermatologic_diseases/vitiligo.html
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| | Vitiligo |
| | Various theories are suggested as the aetiology of vitiligo; the same mechanism may not apply to all cases. | | | In light skin individuals, vitiligo may only be discernible in summer, when the vitiliginous area becomes sunburnt. | | | These can be tried in stationary vitiligo which are not extending any further. |
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http://www.hkmj.org.hk/skin/vitiligo.htm
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| | Vitiligo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The location of vitiligo affected skin changes over time, with some patches re-pigmenting and others becoming affected. | | | This is especially true for darker skinned patients as the contrast between pigmented and depigmented skin can be quite drastic. | | | If the affected person is pale-skinned, the patches can be made less visible by avoiding sunlight and the tanning of unaffected skin. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitiligo
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| | American Vitiligo Research Foundation |
| | Few conditions are as patterned and symmetrical as vitiligo. | | | Vitiligo has become a marked social stigma in countries such as India, where opportunities for social advancement or marriage among affected individuals are severely limited even today. | | | The more dark skinned a person is, the more their vitiligo stands out, because of the contrast between affected and unaffected areas of skin. |
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http://www.avrf.org/PAGES-LEVEL2/vit_questions.html
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| | Vitiligo |
| | People with vitiligo seem to be less likely to get skin cancer for reasons that are being studied. | | | People with dark skin and vitiligo are often ostracized by their community. | | | This medication causes permanent whitening of the dark areas of the skin and should only be used as a last resort. |
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http://www.skinsite.com/info_vitiligo.htm
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| | Vitiligo |
| | Vitiligo is a type of skin discoloration characterized by progressively widening areas of depigmented (very white) skin. | | | An approach to the treatment of vitiligo by khellin. | | | Khellin, the active constituent, appears to work like psoralen drugs—it stimulates repigmentation of the skin by increasing sensitivity of remaining melanocytes to sunlight. |
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http://www.publix.com/wellness/notes/Display.do?id=Concern&childId=Vitiligo
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| | Vitiligo- Health Encyclopedia and Reference |
| | New techniques of using epidermal autografts and cultured epidermis combined with PUVA therapy offer the possibility of surgical correction with low risk of scarring. | | | For fair-skinned individuals, avoiding tanning of normal skin can make the areas of vitiligo almost unnoticeable. | | | Heredity (over 30 percent of affected persons have reported vitiligo in a parent, sibling, or child) |
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http://drdean.healthcentral.com/encyclopedia/408/255/Vitiligo.html
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| | Nonsurgical Repigmentation Therapies in Vitiligo: Meta-analysis of the LiteratureM. | | | ``Established in 1985, the National Vitiligo Foundation is a nonprofit organization that informs and counsels vitiligo patients and their families and seeks to increase awareness and concern for vitiligo patients with the general public and within the medical community; and supports scientific and clinical research on vitiligo. | | | The Foundation strived to locate, inform, and counsel Vitilgo patients and their families; to increase public awareness and concern for the Vitiligo patient; to broaden the concern for the patient within the medical community; to encourage, promote and fund increased scientific and clinical research on the cause, treatment and ultimate cure. |
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http://www.edae.gr/vitiligo.html
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| | Vitiligo treatment-Xianchen Institute for Vitiligo |
| | A series of vitiligo-resolving medicines developed by Xianchen Institute for Vitiligo are Chinese herbal preparations manufactured with genuine Chinese herbs, which is non-toxic, gives no side-effects, runs a short term of course of treatment and achieves a faster and permanent effectiveness. | | | During the course of treatment, you should do strictly depending upon the medical order and the instructions regarding the usage of the drugs, and maintain a better mental state, you can approach the desired results. | | | The drugs are applied and taken conveniently, rarely shows recurrence and approaches a high effective rate of 98% and a cure rate over 80%. |
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http://www.curevitiligo.com/English
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| | eMedicine - Vitiligo : Article by Seung-Kyung Hann, MD |
| | Vitiligo on the back of hands and feet is very resistant to therapy. | | | No single therapy for vitiligo produces predictably good results in all patients; the response to therapy is highly variable. | | | Vitiligo often occurs around body orifices such as the lips, genitals, gingiva, areolas, and nipples. |
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http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic453.htm
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| | Vitiligo |
| | It is more easily observed in sun-exposed areas of the body and in darker skin types, but it affects any area of the body and all races. | | | There are at least three theories about the underlying mechanism of vitiligo. | | | A condition in which something triggers the immune system to react against and attack the body's own tissues. |
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http://www.lifesteps.com/gm/Atoz/ency/vitiligo.jsp
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| | VITILIGO |
| | Or she could choose to depigment--to allow the disease to run its full course--and live with the consequences: She might have a pigmentless, milky complexion for the rest of her life; or if the disease stopped at, say, 50 percent depigmentation, her skin might be a permanent mix of white and fleshtone. | | | The procedure was developed at Harvard University in the seventies as a way to combat psoriasis, though the use of the Ammi majus plant (from which psoralen is derived) as a skin therapy dates back to ancient Egyptian times. | | | "There, people with vitiligo are treated so badly that skin grafting is one of the leading surgical procedures by dermatologists in that country. |
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http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Stage/2943/skin.html
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| | Vitiligo Treatment Vitiligo Cure Vitiligo Support |
| | Vitiligo can begin at any age although about fifty percent of people who have Vitiligo developed it before they turned 25. | | | It is more of a cosmetic problem because it can be emotionally and psychologically distressing and today there are several ways to treat Vitiligo. | | | There is no way to predict if this skin disorder (Vitiligo) will spread. |
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http://www.vitiligoinfo.com
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| | SkinCell Vitiligo |
| | Care should be taken by any sufferer to ensure that the areas of Vitiligo on the body are properly protected from natural sunlight. | | | This does not mean, however, that a person will contract Vitiligo just because a parent has the condition. | | | The skin uses melanin to help protect the body from natural sunlight, therefore as the production of melanin has been drastically reduced or halted where Vitiligo appears it is very important that the sufferer takes great care not to expose the areas to direct sunlight. |
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http://www.skincell.org/vitiligo.shtml
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| | Vitiligo (leucoderma) and its homeopathic treatment |
| | Within 6 months, the Vitiligo affected areas started regaining original skin color and now both the spots on each side of my neck have completely restored the original skin color. | | | What do we offer: A highly professional medical team under care of Dr Rajesh Shah, M.D.(Hom.) consisting of homeopathy doctors, dermatologist and an internist handle cases of vitiligo on-line. | | | Some of our research based medicines have been patented. |
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http://www.leucoderma.com
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| | Vitiligo. DermNet NZ |
| | If a dark skinned person has vitiligo affecting a large part of the exposed areas, he or she may wish to undergo depigmentation. | | | People with dark skin may observe the onset of vitiligo any time. | | | There are three theories on the cause of vitiligo: |
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http://dermnetnz.org/colour/vitiligo.html
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| | MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Vitiligo |
| | Depigmented areas are more likely to sunburn or develop certain skin cancers. | | | There is an increased incidence in some families. | | | This condition affects about 1% of the U.S. population. |
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http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000831.htm
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| | Open Directory - Health: Conditions and Diseases: Skin Disorders: Vitiligo |
| | American Vitiligo Research Foundation, Inc. - Provides public awareness and counseling to the families and those afflicted by this disease. | | | Chinese Traditional Medicine and Vitiligo - Describes in detail how practitioners in China solve this disorder with TCM herbal products and herbs. | | | Treatment of Vitiligo by Traditional Chinese Medicine - Offers an introduction, treatments, typical cases and contact details. |
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http://dmoz.org/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Skin_Disorders/Vitiligo
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| | Vitiligo |
| | Repigmentation involves trying to restore the normal color to areas of your skin affected by vitiligo. | | | It is not always successful, but it may bring back some color. | | | Areas exposed to the sun: face, hands, arms, upper part of the chest |
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http://healthlibrary.epnet.com/GetContent.aspx?token=af362d97-4f80-4453-a175-02cc6220a387&chunkiid=22498
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| | Vitiligo Home Page |
| | Vitiligo is characterize by skin depigmentation and is commonly associated with the immune system. | | | KALAWALLA can help regulate the immune system bringing it to its healthiest, strongest, balanced levels. | | | Vitiligo is a skin condition characterized by white patches resulting from the loss of pigment. |
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http://www.organichope.com/vitiligo.htm
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| | Vitiligo Tab - About Vitiligo |
| | There are several systemic diseases (affecting the entire body system), which are at times associated with Vitiligo: | | | You may download a summary of our clinical study in Adobe's PDF format. | | | Basically, Vitiligo can hardly be called as a disease but a skin- disorder that has more social than medical significance, especially amongst the dark skin people. |
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http://www.vitiligo-tab.net/about_vitiligo.html
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| | Inst för medicinska vetenskaper |
| | We are also working with conventional therapies for vitiligo such as UVB and corticosteroids. | | | Click here to see pictures of treated areas. | | | Since several years we have done research on and treated areas lacking pigmentation by transplantation of the patients own pigment cells to affected areas, i.e. |
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http://www.medsci.uu.se/dermatology/vitiligo
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| | VITILIGO |
| | The commonest modality of treatment is systemic or topical PUVA therapy (Psoralen + Ultraviolet A), which consists of use of psoralen compounds followed by exposure to UV radiation in the 320 to 400nm range (Ultraviolet A or UVA). | | | Oral PUVA/PUVASOL is used in patients with extensive vitiligo. | | | The varied clinical and laboratory findings,however, indicate that multiple mechanisms may be responsible for the causation of vitiligo in an individual. |
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http://dermind.tripod.com/vitiligo.htm
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| | Vitiligo Society uk - loss of skin colour |
| | Promoting a positive approach to living with vitiligo | | | Vitiligo is quite a common skin condition which can cause extreme distress to sufferers because of its unusual appearance. | | | Individual circumstances differ and The Vitiligo Society does not prescribe, give medical advice, or endorse products or treatments. |
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http://www.vitiligosociety.org.uk
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| | National Vitiligo Foundation |
| | We'll keep you informed about the latest research and discoveries, and ways people cope with vitiligo. | | | Vitiligo is spontaneous irregular depigmentation of skin which can occur at any stage in life. | | | But people with vitiligo and their families and friends know that it can cause much suffering because of social effects of the change in appearance. |
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http://www.nvfi.org
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| | Anti-Vitiligo |
| | Now, 11 years later, I have vitiligo on my chest, arms, legs, feet and both arms. | | | It is the most effective herbal remedy for this purpose with a reorder rate of above 35%*. | | | Then I stared growing more spots in different parts of my body. |
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http://www.treatmentofvitiligo.com
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| | Vitiligo (leucoderma) and its homeopathic treatment |
| | As there are many factors which influence the process and the treatment of Vitiligo disorder, the VAT has its own limitations. | | | The VAT is a result of accumulated experience. | | | This is based on his research work in the field of homeopath, whereby thousands of cases of various nature including Vitiligo have been treated in the course of last 20 years. |
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http://www.leucoderma.com/test_vitiligo/register.asp
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| | online homoeopathic clinic for Vitiligo Leucoderma treatment |
| | In his vast experience and research in Vitiligo since 1980, he has come across more than 2000 cases. | | | His practice reveals that Homoeopathic medicine has shown improvement in vitiligo within 30 to 40 days the pigmentation starts faster in hairy region than in bony prominence of the skin. | | | Complete Cure may be seen between 12 to 18 months. |
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http://www.vitiligo.org
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| | Emedicine Search Results for vitiligo |
| | Vitiligo - Vitiligo is a specific type of leukoderma characterized by depigmentation of the epidermis. | | | Click another Tab to find results in that category. |
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http://www.emedicine.com/cgi-bin/foxweb.exe/searchengine@/em/searchengine?boolean=and&book=all&maxhits=100&HiddenURL=&query=vitiligo
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| | Health Information - Yale Medical Group |
| | Smooth, white patches in the skin, vitiligo is caused by the loss of pigment-producing cells in the skin (melanocytes). | | | Sometimes, following an ulcer, blister, burn, or infection, the skin does not replace some of the pigment in that area. | | | The white patches are very sensitive to the sun. |
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http://ymghealthinfo.org/content.asp?page=P00304
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| | Hardin MD : Vitiligo |
| | [vitaligo, viteligo, pictures of vitiligo, vitiligo skin disorder][78299 | | | Vitiligo (Choose links for Vitiligo on Light Diseases page) | | | : Skin disorders : Vitiligo (Other versions: Google) |
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http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/vitiligo.html
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