Vitiligo Is Easier Happens In Spring & Summer

Vitiligo is a disease could happens in any season, but the seasonal variation of vitiligo is obvious. Majority patients get aggravation during spring and summer, especially during alternative period. This period is a great time for travel, and many people will choose to travel out, but the travelers might find the vitiligo after they returned, and the new appear white spots usually happens on face or other exposed areas. This phenomenon also proved the happens of vitiligo is related to the over exposure of sunshine.

During the routine life, many patients’ normal skin around the vitiligo is tanned due to the sunshine in summer, however, the vitiligo areas are not tanned at the same time. Therefore, the difference of vitiligo skin and normal skin looks obviously and misunderstood as aggravation of vitiligo, thus lead an unnecessary nervous for the patient.

Although the vitiligo happens more during spring and summer, happens less during autumn and winter, the patients should not lightly treat the vitiligo in any season. The proper method is: insist the treatment of vitiligo no matter which season, and how the vitiligo changed, for a earlier recover of the vitiligo. The patient should not give up the treatment if the condition looks better during winter. Due to the reduce of the sun light intensity, and the short time of the day time, people’s normal skin will turn white and the difference between the normal skin and white spots narrows, even become almost invisible. Many patients misunderstand it is as recovery and stopped the treatment.

During spring everything comes to life, the various functions of human body become more active. Especially during the end of spring and the start of summer, the vitiligo is easy happens and spread, it is directly relative to the melanin production factors and skin characters. In spring, the melanocytes represent hyperfunction, thus, they require more nutrition. Nevertheless, the activity of tyrosinase reduced in vitiligo patients’ body, and the tyrosinase could not provide the enough nutrition for the melanin production, thus lead the aggravation of vitiligo. During the autumn and winter, the weather turns from hot to cold and human metabolism slowed, therefore, the requirement of substances such as tyrosinase are less, and the vitiligo get remission a little.

Although the happens of vitiligo is relative to the seasons, the therapy of vitiligo should not have the seasonal limitation. The vitiligo patients should take the treatment actively.