What is the relationship between vitiligo and seasons?

Seasonal changes have a great impact on vitiligo. Huahai experts said that because vitiligo is easy to relapse and spread, and is easy to diagnose, it is difficult to treat. Patients' long-term oral and external use of a variety of drugs have changed the onset patterns of some patients. At this time, the patients' mental burden has increased, and it has also brought certain difficulties to treatment. Therefore, in the process of treating vitiligo, the relationship between the disease and the season, as well as the season and the treatment effect, must be taken into consideration. Seasonal changes have a great impact on vitiligo. In daily life, many vitiligo patients will mention when seeing a doctor that their disease worsens in winter, and the skin lesions gradually reduce as the weather gets warmer. The occurrence, aggravation, recurrence or improvement of vitiligo symptoms is indeed closely related to the season. The general rule is that most patients develop, aggravate and relapse in winter. When the weather gets warmer in summer, the treatment of skin lesions will be more effective and the best. Some patients Skin lesions can also subside on their own during this season. Only a few patients do the opposite. Because some patients with vitiligo have a natural pattern of aggravation, recurrence, or remission and regression in different seasons, some people refer to patients with aggravation or recurrence in the cold seasons of autumn and winter, and remission or remission in summer as winter-type vitiligo. The seasons with the most aggravation of skin lesions are winter, spring is the second, autumn is the third, and summer is the least. Generally speaking, winter and spring are the main seasons for the aggravation and recurrence of vitiligo symptoms. Master and understand After understanding the relationship between vitiligo symptoms and seasons, we can adopt appropriate treatment methods according to the changes in the patient's skin lesions in different seasons, speed up the disappearance of the skin lesions, and shorten the treatment time.