Diet For Vitiligo patients

As we know that the diet also is very important for vitiligo patients.if we can make a reasonable diet plan, it will decrease the risk of getting vitiligo.

It also is helpful to the recovery process of vitiligo.

Since ancient times, it has statement about that medicine and food are homo-logical, indicating that there is no absolute boundary line between many foods and drugs. If we take the right food which can have an effect to treat vitiligo, if we take the wrong medicine. It will worsen the vitiligo condition. So vitiligo patients should watch out their daily diet,by this it can avoid their vitiligo becoming worsen. Then what does the vitiligo patients should look out for their diet?

1. Vitiligo patients should take less vitamin C and the foods that are enriched vitamin C or vitamin C tablets. Vitamin C are common use for treating many disease, but vitamin C can make dopaquinone reduced to Dopa. To interrupt the synthesis of the melanin. Vitamin C will not only affect the vitamin C, but also will lower down the activity of serum copper oxidase.

2. The patients should eat less or avoid eating the food that are enriched glutathione. If the patient’s body chronic deficient in glutathione. It can increase the activity of tyrosinase underlying the skin. Thus, vitiligo patients should eat less or totally avoid eating the food are enriched glutathione, but they can eat more eggplant, carrots, rape and celery. They also can eat more grapes, and walnut, apples.

3. The vitiligo patients should eat less meat or fish etc, their main diet should be vegetarian. Meat, fishes, eggs contain too much saturated fatty acid. Which will make cholesterol level increase of human. When blood viscosity will increase,which is not good to control the spreading of vitiligo.

4. Vitiligo patients should eat more food that contain tyrosinase and copper, zinc etc. The tyrosinase activity can enhance when there is the copper and zinc. The patients can take the animals internal organs, lean meat, and some bean products, fresh vegetables.

Vitiligo patients should abandon the cigarette, and alcohol.As we known that cigarette contain nicotine, tobacco, carbon monoxide , all these have a bad effect to human organs. Which can make the blood oxygen level drop, lower down the immunity ability, further lead to the lung cancer.

Vitiligo belong to one of stubborn skin disease, the reasonable diet not only can help replenish the nutrients. It can also help patients improve their vitiligo condition.