Anyone Have Expeirience Treating Vitiligo (Spots of No Skin Pigment)?

[On the Road]

I have been asked to find Western medicine for someone in China who is suffering from vitiligo, in which a person has large irregular patches of white unpigmented skin.

Some of the web links do not sound legitimate. WebMD has links to sites which describe the most effective treatment as a combination of laser therapy and a steroid cream (0.1% tacrolimus ointment). The laser therapy is not practical in this case, and they give no information on the ointment alone or on other possible treatments.

Apparently Vitilio affects 1-2% of the population worldwide (including Michael Jackson), so it's not exactly rare.

Can anyone share experiences on insights on this condition and treating it? Would appreciate any insight.

[gizmo1979]

1. My step sister has that

she just lives with it.

[MADem]

2. Make up, of good quality, like is used for stage and screen and

serious accidents that leave brutal scarring, perhaps? DermaBlend I think is one....it would help cover the areas while treatments are attempted, at any rate.

[canuckforpeace]

3. My mom has it.

She used to lay under a sunlamp which helped to some degree, but never got rid of it completely.