Vitiligo: An Autoimmune Condition With Real Treatments, Not a Diet Failing

Summary

Vitiligo is an autoimmune disease in which the body's own cytotoxic T cells destroy the pigment-making melanocytes, so the white patches are not a fungal infection, a hygiene lapse, or a food you ate, and there are now genuine evidence-based treatments that can repigment skin (topical steroids and calcineurin inhibitors, narrowband UVB phototherapy, and the first FDA-approved repigmentation drug, the JAK-inhibitor cream ruxolitinib) — yet the honest counter is that there is no cure, repigmentation is slow, partial and strongly site-dependent (the face responds, the hands and feet barely do), e