Current Management of Pediatric Vitiligo

@article{Driessche2015CurrentMO,
  title={Current Management of Pediatric Vitiligo},
  author={Freya Van Driessche and Nanette B. Silverberg},
  journal={Pediatric Drugs},
  year={2015},
  volume={17},
  pages={303-313},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:20038695}
}
Medical interventions are largely the usage of topical therapies including corticosteroids and calcineurin inhibitors, some vitamin therapy (oral and topical vitamin D), and judicious introduction of phototherapy sources based on age and severity, which may enhance overall health.
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Treatment lasting longer than 1 year is recommended in children with vitiligo and the best repigmentation effect can be achieved by combination therapy in the rapid progression stage.

A child with vitiligo

There are many therapeutic options for vitiligo, none of which is fully effective, hence appropriate patients education concerning various medical and cosmetic therapies, as well as the psychological aspects of the disease is extremely important.

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There is an ongoing need for studies to better understand the modalities described in this article, as well as others, such as skin dyes, bleaching creams, medical tattooing; week‐long camps that cater to children with chronic skin disease; and biofeedback, that might have a role in preventing the psychosocial sequelae of childhood vitiligo.

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