Vitiligo Relief

Vitiligo is not contagious in any way and it does not caused by an infection. The actual cause of this disease is yet, unknown but vitiligo experts say that, “it is an immune disease which is caused due to inability of doing proper work by immune skin cells”.

Human body is made of tow types of tiny skin cell or building blocks.

a) Keratinocytes:(The skin cells which make up the bulk of the skin)
b) Melanocytes: (The skin cells that make the skin color)

In vitiligo patients, the immune skin cells (cells which fight against infection) attack on the melanocytes and kill them instead of killing germ cells. When the melanocytes die, the skin of that area turns white due to lack of melanocytes, which makes skin pigment or color.

Vitiligo Threats & Other Causes:

Vitiligo is now becoming a great threat for Dermatologist and for us, as no one knows why the immune cells attack and kill the melanocytes instead of killing germ cells like harmful bacteria.
Although the exact cause of vitiligo is yet not discover despite a lot of searches of medical science, but the following are the some reasons, which may consider as its causes.

• Some vitiligo expert say, vitiligo caused due to genetic factor, that’s why; Patient’s Family history play an important role in order to find its cause as, it has a tendency to run in families, and causes, rash, sunburn, stress, physical illness or other skin trauma.

• Dr. Richard Spritz has spent several years in researching the genetics cause of vitiligo. He worked on isolated genes and through this work he came to discover a NALP1 gene that seems to have a with vitiligo and is closely related with autoimmune diseases.

• Vitiligo sometimes set off by severe stress as is diagnosed in Eddie Panlilio; a Philippine Province governor.

• Vitiligo may sometimes also occur at the site of an old injury.

• Other researches are centered on vitamin deficiencies and internal pathogens. The lack or deficiency of these vitamins effect on the psychological and social effects of even lighter skinned people.