New technology of Chinese Medicine in the Treatment of Vitiligo Makes Recovery Dreams Come True

Binzhou Huahai Vitiligo Hospital developed a new technology successfully. The new technology "black and white cured together" made a breakthrough in the treatment of vitiligo.

Beijing ,China (PRWEB) April 14, 2014

The new technology of vitiligo treatment--"black and white cured together" technology was approved and     promoted by the state administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine of China. Since the national               promotion in October 2009, it has successfully serviced hundreds of patients throughout almost                               114 countries around the world, including the United States, Britain, Japan, Jordan, South Africa and so on.               The success of the technological promotion rewrote the history of vitiligo treatment and brought good                 news to patients with vitiligo.

Vitiligo has been recognized as one of most intractable skin diseases in the world. Its pathogenesis is       complex, and treatment methods are numerous. The traditional therapy treatment only aims at vitiligo parts.           By this way, although it can alleviate vitiligo partly, there are still some limited problems, such as a long       treatment cycle, large side effects, and a high recurrence rate. In order to meet the general patients’ urgent demands of a more scientific, effective and safer treatment technology, the medical community is constantly exploring new options.

Binzhou Huahai Vitiligo Hospital’s technology of vitiligo treatment--"black and white cured together", which is   based on traditional Chinese medical theory and combined with modern medicine, by summing up the   experience of vitiligo clinical trials, has achieved great success. The analysis of the etiology and pathogens     about vitiligo has carried on the systematical research, making a breakthrough in vitiligo treatment with this         new technology. The technology shows that it can activate tyrosine activity, regulate the immune system,       improve micro-circulation, promote the melanin cell adhesion and migration and melanin synthesis. Clinical observation showed that the technology has the characteristics of quick effect, short course of treatment,             high cure rate, and green security. It has a magic effect on different types of vitiligo, especially vitiligo with                   large area .This technology’s curative effect has achieved an international leading level. It solved the difficult problem of vitiligo effectively and created a new era of scientific treatment of vitiligo.

Binzhou Huahai Vitiligo Hospital has a reputation for the treatment of vitiligo. It is the vitiligo research and demonstration base of the United Nations’ related institution. And by the support of China’s ministry of civil     affairs, Huahai Vitiligo Hospital has achieved the name of “national advanced unit of self-discipline and good     faith construction”. Moreover, the state administration of traditional Chinese medicine approved it as a             "national excellent institutions of traditional Chinese medicine, under the Chinese ministry of science and technology torch high-tech torch plan, the core technology award a number of national patients, and be         included in the national non-material cultural heritage protection projects. Deputy speaker of the Ninth National People's Congress standing committee, Jiang Zhenghua, vice chairman of CPPCC  (the Chinese people's political consultative conference nine conference) Sun Fuling , give the technology high admission.                       And a number of authoritative medias in China central television reported the hospital’s vitiligo treatment technology.

Student with vitiligo asked to leave varsity

He had secured admission for six-year integrated B. Tech course for speech and hearing impaired
Life has not been an easy journey for 18-year-old P. Ayyappan of Tirunelveli. Born with a hearing impairment, he managed to overcome it to a significant extent through speech therapy.
His childhood dream was to become an engineer. When the Kalasalingam University near Srivilliputtur in Virudhunagar district introduced a pioneering six-year integrated B. Tech course for the speech and hearing impaired in 2007, it brightened his hope of realising his dream. He managed to get admission to the B. Tech course on July 4 and spent a day with his classmates.
The next afternoon, however, the teenager was asked to remain in his hostel room. The university authorities called his parents to say that the parents of other students had objected to their children studying with Ayyappan, because he had vitiligo or patches of white skin on his body.

Non-infectious
His mother P. Hemavathi tried in vain to convince the authorities that it was not a contagious disease.
She produced a medical certificate from an Assistant Professor in the Department of Dermatology, Tirunelveli Medical College Hospital, that said “vitiligo is non-infectious and will not spread by contact.”

The doctor said it was nothing but loss of pigmentation and that the boy should be allowed to pursue his studies. However, the medical certificate failed to evoke any positive response.

When The Hindu contacted Vice-Chancellor M. Venkatesulu on Tuesday, he said the university had not taken a final decision on the student’s studies. However, Ayyappan was not allowed to attend classes and asked to remain in the hostel.

On Wednesday, the authorities asked his mother to take him home. The Vice-Chancellor could not be reached on his mobile phone on Wednesday afternoon.

“I don’t understand how the university can ask my son to leave the institution, when the tuition and hostel fees have been paid,” Ms. Hemavathi said. Kalasalingam University was the only institution offering the unique programme and he had no choice but to continue there.

“They say they are ready to take him next year if he gets cured,” she added. The university authorities have informed her that she would be apprised of the future course of action after a week over phone.

Discrimination
“This is nothing but sheer discrimination by the university authorities on the basis of leucoderma, which is only de-pigmentation of skin due to auto-immune disorder,” secretary of Chennai-based Leucoderma Awareness Movement, K. Umapathy, said.
He cited a State government order of December 27, 2010, stating that vitiligo, also called leucoderma, was neither an infectious nor a hereditary disease.
The university’s action was a rights violation and unconstitutional, he said.
Stating that there were misconceptions about vitiligo, Mr. Umapathy said the movement would approach the Departments of Health, School Education and Higher Education, seeking suitable orders that no child should be discriminated by schools and colleges on the basis of vitiligo.
 “We want the government to stop denial of admission to such students,” he add

Source: http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/tamil-nadu/article3628654.ece

This is just a few of the many cases happening around the world. The only way we can fight the discrimination of people living with vitiligo is by making vitiligo known.

Deeper than Skin: Inside the World of Vitiligo Patients

This is an article by Naomi Ogaldez

Queens, New York-Isabel Goncalves was diagnosed when she was four years old. “I was overwhelmed, shocked, and cried when I heard the news of her diagnosis of vitiligo,” said Goncalve’ mother, Maria Gonzalez.

Now that Goncalves is 12-years-old, eight years later, her skin depigmentation has spread throughout her whole body, except her face.

“She is really confident. She doesn’t like to cover up her vitiligo, ” said Gonzalez.

Even though, she is confident in her own skin, Goncalves said, people still look at her differently and, at times, make her the outcast. “On a daily basis, people are constantly making fun of me and they say I look like a cow. They are constantly saying I look weird. I am bullied,” she said.

Gocalves has vitiligo.

WHAT IS VITILIGO

The Indian Journal of Dermatology stated that about one to two percent of the world’s population suffers from this diseas

e. This skin depigmentation affects all ethnic groups and racial groups equally. Although it may seem that Latinos and African Americans are more affected because of their darker skin color, but in reality, they are not.

According to Vitiligo Support International, half of people with vitiligo have had it developed before the age 20 and about 95 percent get it before the age of 40.

“I thought I was the only one that had it, but, in reality, there are a lot of people that have it,” said Alejandra Riera, from San Juan, Puerto Rico, who has had vitiligo for 15 years. “People have a lot of misconceptions of vitiligo such as it being contagious, hereditary, and painful, but all of that is not true.”

The cause of vitiligo is still unknown, however, there are various scientific theories to the cause of vitiligo.

Clinuvel Pharmaceuticals, a global biopharmaceutical company focused on developing drugs for the treatment of skin disorders, stated that vitiligo is characterized by the destruction of melanocytes pigment cells that stop functioning, which causes the skin that is affected to become white in color.

“In order for this to happen something has to precipitate this dysfunction in the immune system, something coming [from] within, such as a sunburnt, pregnancy, physiological and psychological stress, bug bites, certain chemicals, and the environment,” said Dr. Raymond Boissy, President of the National Vitiligo Foundation and Director of Basic Science Research at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, who has studied vitiligo for more than 30 years.

Several genes have to dysfunction in order for someone to be susceptible to this complex, multi-genetic disease.

“I would describe vitiligo as the cancer or the AIDS of the 2000 because people are afraid to come out,” said Dr. Boissy. “Like cancer and HIV, therapies have developed, people with those diseases have come out and advocate for themselves, which has helped bring awareness and a better life for them. I see the same happening for vitiligo. I see the renaissance in the horizon.”

Although, there is hope in the development of a cure and awareness about vitiligo, there are still issues concerning this disease. First off, there are some health insurance companies that don’t cover vitiligo patients.

Health insurance plans sometimes consider treatments for vitiligo to be cosmetic. Most health insurance plans will not cover medical care for cosmetic purposes. For that reason, “most treatments are not to cure vitiligo, they are to conceal or lessen the appearance of white patches. This strongly suggests that the treatments are for cosmetic reasons rather than medical reasons,” said Lisa Dahl, health insurance agent at Hoffman Brown Company. This has also given a reason to Mayo Clinic to state in their website that “medical treatment for vitiligo isn’t always necessary.” According to Boissy, about 60 percent of insurance companies cover vilitigo patients, the other 40 percent does not.

“It’s not a cosmetic issue, it’s a disease, we know that there are genes that cause it,” he said.

For that reason, he went on to say that without pigmentation in the skin, people are more susceptible to skin cancer and skin aging. In addition to affecting the skin, it can also have a dramatic auto immune response, which can affect other parameters such as the thyroid, amino glands, and the joints can develop arthritis or diabetes.

LIVING WITH THE DISEASE

Danny Arcanjo, 20-year-old, from Newark, New Jersey, who is the first in his family to have vitiligo, has had it for four years now. His insurance company doesn’t cover the cost for his treatments, so he has to pay out of his pocket for them. He has paid $2,500 to get started on his skin graphing and laser treatment. Arcanjo is required to visit the dermatologist on a weekly basis– each session costs $200.

Beyond the external physical changes and battles for insurance coverage that vitiligo patients undergo, many vitiligo patients have also been affected psychologically.

“I have seen a lot of people that have vitiligo get really depressed, angry, sad, paranoid, pessimistic, and negative because you are stuck with it for life. They still haven’t found a cure for it,” said Arcanjo.

Arcanjo went on to say that people should be aware about vitiligo because it could help prevent and solve many problems for the vitiligo community such as the psychological affects that may occur from having this skin depigmentation. When people discriminate people with vitiligo, they don’t realize that they are harming them psychologically to the point of giving them a reason to commit suicide.

Also, with awareness, many people in this community would be able to achieve their dreams, instead, of having to change them.

Before he had vitligo, he was on his way to becoming a professional soccer player. His vitiligo doesn’t let him be out in the sun too much, so he had to give up that dream. He said he is only one of many who have had to alter their hopes and dreams.

The psychological ramifications of vitiligo can be seen in various patients that have it.


Isabel Goncalves from Queens, New York was diagnosed with vitiligo when she was four years old/ By: Maria Gonzalez
“It’s not only a depigmentation, a cosmetical problem, it’s physical, psychological, and it deals with your health. You will never know how it feels until you have it,” said 35-year-old mother, Johana Galindez from Long Island, New York, who is the first in her family to get vitiligo.

She experiences psychological affects from having vitiligo daily. “I hate when people stare at me, I try to hide my hands. On a daily basis, I experience a lot of negativity, it feels like a roller coaster. I know beauty comes from within, but it is very hard thing to accept, especially, if you are a person like me who was very active and had a big open social life,” said Galindez

At the age of 26, she was diagnosed with vitiligo. This caused her to end her dancing career in New York. “People don’t tell you up front, the producers, the teachers, and the cast members, but you know inside that people don’t see you the same way. They don’t care the same way,” said Galindez

source : http://www.elnuevosol.net