Comments on: Vitamin D and vitiligo

By: blingmyfaves.com

blingmyfaves.com — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:44:57 +0000

Vitamin D and vitiligo…

Topical treatment with vitamin D3 analogs, specifically calciprotriol and tacalcitol, gained consideration as possible treatments for vitiligo following reports of hyperpigmentation in psoriasis patients. (48) The exact mechanism by which vitamin D may…

By: Isa

Isa — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:33:28 +0000

I sincerely hope that an effective cure can be learned soon for all vitiligo patients. Being a female, wearing a bathing suit in the summer or maybe a halter dress for example is very embarrassing and not to mention depressing. While the studies are still be conducted, does ANYONE, recommend or approve of permanent make up for the skin?

By: Dale

Dale — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:47:43 +0000

I’m in my 40s and have been working different approaches to treating vitiligo and alopicia for years. I’ve tried Oral vitamin D. It often made my stomach upset. I recently started topical D3. The first thing I noticed was that my skin began to feel softer and smoother, and I have properly pigmented hair growing in places where I had not seen growth in some time.

I did not have either of these responses from oral vitamin D at 4x the potency.

I don’t know why, and I can’t yet draw any conclusions, but thought it might help.

By: Sermin

Sermin — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:24:05 +0000

Thank you for this sharing. Vit.D can be useful for vitiligo but I don’t understand why they just studied topical form of vt. D. I did repigmented many time around %80-85 and got always back much more when I cut my regimes. So this is the biggest problem with vitiligo as because it is a complex situation more than a skin condition. If the system problem just compressed but not recovered, it will come back in 3-4 months or in a year. Repigmentation is not only problem, the main problem is that we commonly have digestive system disfunction, commonly we have some tyroid dysfunctions associated with the other glandular dysfunctions. My vitiligo comes from my poly glandular dysfunction. Low energy levels, very low vit. levels (so why not oral form instead of cream from of vit.D),very low seratonin and sex hormones, but high level of chortizon (I got a depo chortizon shot but it caused my viti spread badly). About chortizons if any of you related health business should know what devastating situation come from. I have never seen any disease could get over with chortizons. It does cause the problems even bigger in time, in asthma, in diabet, psoriasis and any of disease. I was a emergency nurse for 5 year, then representative for a drug company, than sales manager, than director of advertising and marketing, for 23 years I am in health business (including nurse school), I have never seen any one get relief with chortizon for a long, it does always comes back even more stubborn. I had it, many of us had it. This is sorry that not much can be done so they still trying chortizons for vitiligo again even they all know what I know. One last thing I wanna say to all, VITILIGO IS A SYSTEM DISORDER NOT A SKIN DISORDER, SYSTEM DISORDER RESULTS AS A SKIN SITUATION CALLED VITILIGO. IT IS COMMONLY FOUND THAT VITILIGO PATIENTS HAS GLANDULAR SYSTEM DYSFUNCTIONS THIS CAN CAUSE IMMUN SYSTEM DAMAGES OR DYSFUNCTIONS, SO VIT. D CAN HELP BETTER IF WE TAKE IT ORALLY OR BY ENJECTABLE FORMS BETTER THAN TOPICAL APPLICATIONS, CHORTIZONS CAN HELP AT THE BEGINNING BUT WILL BRING (in a month or so) MORE VITI DEPENDS ON MY EXPERIENCE, I AM WRITING BIG JUST I GOT TIRED OF HEARING THE SIMILAR WEAK APPROACHES TO THIS COMPLEX SITUATION..I should add something more as PUVA is the best artificial light treatment I had combined with psorolen pills, the other thing is natural sun also work much greater then narrow B depends on my experiences. Anyway last summer I used psorolen pills and natural sun light again, in 2-3 months got %85 coverage, I has to quit my regime and they came all back in 2-3 months even bigger. This is my 4th times that I got success but doesn’t last long..Good luck and I hope there will be something found soon that I can believe would work after all..

By: Ted Hutchinson

Ted Hutchinson — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:37:09 +0000

Checking that you are not Vitamin D3 deficient is relatively cheap and easy. Grassroots health $40 25(OH)D postal test Just 2 spots of blood on a test card, Lancet provided, return the card and in a couple of weeks they email you a link to the result. If you explore that Grassroots site you will find a series of videos from the world's leading Vitamin D scientists. Diabetes, Cancer, Heart Disease are just a few of the subjects covered in relation to low vitamin D status. The problem is just about every cell in the body uses D3. When our DNA evolved we lived naked outdoors. It was the ability to store D3 when we in surplus that enabled the paler skinned individuals to survive in northern latitudes, but nowadays most people never reach the point 125nmol/l 50ng where the stores of D3 build up. In order for the immune function to work at Vmax the system requires equal amounts of stored D3{/a> to match circulating 25(OH)D. So anyone with a 25(OH)D below 50ng 125nmol/l is less capable of resisting chronic disease.