Can you catch vitiligo?
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by Caroline Haye
1w ago
Spoiler alert: NO, but here’s why some people might ask Some bloggers like to pose intriguing questions in their titles, then take their readers on an exhaustive tour of the subject, only revealing the answer in the closing paragraph waaaayyy down the bottom of the page. I know I have done this more than a few times myself. But, as I write this, I find myself wanting to answer the question Can you catch vitiligo? simply and clearly right at the outset, rather than risk losing anyone’s attention along the way. For one thing, I would not want anyone who didn’t already know the answer (a resoundi ..read more
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Vitiligo on hands and feet
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by Caroline Haye
1M ago
Why are extremities so prone to depigmentation and so hard to repigment? Vitiligo can occur absolutely anywhere on the body. (Even on the inside.) No area of skin is off limits as far as this pigmentary disorder is concerned, two of the most common sites being the face and the extremities. (Well, that makes three sites really, since extremities comprise both hands and feet.) But, whereas facial vitiligo responds relatively well to currently available therapies, hands and feet are notoriously resistant. Meaning that these are often among the last areas to improve. And sometimes they never impro ..read more
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Vitiligo in advertising
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by Caroline Haye
2M ago
Marketing products AND awareness Advertising is all around us all the time. Each new year – and 2024 will be no exception – advertisers bombard us with hundreds of thousands of advertising messages. They start with the January sales. Then come spring breaks, summer vacations and every imaginable activity and event connected to outdoor sports. Before we know what happened, it’s back-to-school gear and tempting holiday ads, not just for the winter season but the following summer too. Then, as we approach Halloween and Bonfire Night, it steps up a gear. Next comes the build-up to Thanksgiving, wh ..read more
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Vitiligo and your social life
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by Caroline Haye
3M ago
Don’t let anxiety spoil the celebrations From one new year to the next life is full of celebrations. Whether it’s Christmas, Easter, Diwali, Ramadan or Hanukkah, there are always wonderful reasons for people to get together. And that’s before you even factor in birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, graduations, retirements, and all manner of other great excuses for a party. On top of which, who said we even have to have a reason to celebrate? Every sociable group activity, from pub quizzes to choir practice, yoga class to football matches, can turn into a celebration. These are all occasions tha ..read more
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How long does vitiligo recovery take?
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by Caroline Haye
4M ago
How long is a piece of string? For most of my life vitiligo felt like a problem with no solution. A mystery without an explanation. A question without an answer. Eventually, I was lucky enough to find some answers for myself. And, even if I didn’t succeed in explaining the mystery behind it, I did at least manage to reverse my own vitiligo. Meanwhile, science and society at large were beginning to come up with bigger answers. Research, awareness campaigning and online access to information all played a part in an ongoing demystification of vitiligo. And yet, there is one common question that n ..read more
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Why vitiligo is so confusing: part 2
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by Caroline Haye
5M ago
Ironies and contradictions In part 1 of this article I referred to some of the mysteries and complexities that still surround vitiligo, even after a decade or more of increased awareness and scientific progress. Finding answers to these can feel a lot like searching for one particular pebble on a very large beach. But the search iteself can be illuminating, whether you stumble upon that one elusive pebble or not. So, to round off my thoughts on the subject, Why vitiligo is so confusing, part 2 will focus on some of the ironies and contradictions that continue to fascinate and infuriate me abou ..read more
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Why vitiligo is so confusing
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by Caroline Haye
6M ago
Part 1: mysteries and complexities Assuming you landed on this page intentionally, you are probably looking for information about vitiligo. And, unless you are completely new to the topic, you will have discovered that any search containing the word vitiligo returns a lot of results. (Well in excess of 60 million at my last count.) That’s a lot of information. So it’s not surprising that some of it is helpful and some is not. Articles and websites on the subject range from scientific to social, factual to frivolous, informative to inaccurate. (Which is probably a pretty good description of the ..read more
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My dream vitiligo cure
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by Caroline Haye
7M ago
An organic way to heal For hundreds (if not thousands) of years people with vitiligo have dreamt of being cured. Quite literally dreamt, if I am anything to go by. I remember waking up with that dream still fresh in my mind. It seemed to my half asleep brain that, by some miracle, all my white patches had disappeared overnight and my normal skin colour was back. Then one look in the mirror would bring me crashing back down to earth. My dream vitiligo cure was just that… A dream. Maybe you have had similar dreams yourself. If so, you will know that they are the polar opposite of nightmares. The ..read more
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5 good things about having vitiligo
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by Caroline Haye
9M ago
Compensations for a patchy skin Despite a firm belief in the power of positive thinking, I never succeeded in being remotely positive about my vitiligo while it was active. But, ever since emerging on the other side of the experience, as it were, I find I can take a more balanced view of its impact. And I now appreciate that, along with the distress my patchy skin caused me over the years, there have been some significant plus points that genuinely added value to my life… And, I’d like to think, to the lives of others too. In reality, there are probably many more pluses than immediately come t ..read more
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When your vitiligo repigments
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by Caroline Haye
10M ago
It feels like an impossible dream come true Have you ever had that dream? The one when your vitiligo repigments? You wake up in the morning and, for a few surreal moments, you feel a sense of elation because you believe that your patchy skin has returned to normal and you are free to be your old confident self again. Then, cold reality hits… And yet you get up and look in the mirror anyway, just in case the impossible really did happen during the night. Well, I had that dream many times. And, of course, I was disappointed every time… Until it finally came true in real life. And in a totally un ..read more
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