Skin Care

Taking care of the skin with moisturizers and sun protection is essential. Depending on the season, during winter months, focusing on moisturizing the skin is particularly important and in summer, the use of sunscreen or sun blocking agents should be a priority. In winter mostly the dryness causes itching which causes white patches and similarly in summer, the sun burn will increase the chances of new vitiligo patches. One should also steer clear of plastic and rubber shoes (chemical in these can cause chemical leukoderma in vitiligo prone person), socks with dark colours and hair dye with PPD chemical (the dye/colour can aggravate the vitiligo). Tight clothing and footwear that increases friction and in turn increase the white patches. Wearing loose clothing and footwear is advisable.