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is a vegetarian diet bad for vitiligo?

Posted by silvia bonilla on July 6, 2015 at 11:49pm in Main

I am really confused after i read a blog from someone that has vitiligo and said that a vegetarian diet is not so good for our condition; then she puts a link over a Dr Wilson treatment and there talks over being vegetarian not always good...

I havent eating meat for about 8 months and actually i have seen new spots, of course i dont know if it's related to that. You never know but i would like to know what you guys think over this

This is the link

http://drlwilson.com/Articles/vegetablediets.htm

and this last one is the currently treatment over a girl which talks about why she doesnt go vegan

http://realvitiligotreatment.com/my-current-vitiligo-treatment-plan/

Thanks a lot for your help

Blessings

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  • Ainara Iturbe Zumeta July 23, 2015 at 7:22pm

    Hi Silvia,

    I can tell you my experience with differents diets and my vitiligo.

    2 years ago I started with macrobiotic diet. At first it was quite hard follow this diet, but at least I followed it much better than I thought. However, the white spots haven't gone in this time, so I thought that macrobiotic wasn't good diet to vitiligo.

    So I continued reading different books, articles, blogs... and I realized that much people saied it is better avoid gluten from our diets. So more or less 3 months ago I started avoiding gluten. At the same time I started with one cream and my vitiligo started repigmenting very very slowly with some spots with pigment. Then the cream finished and my repigmentation stopped. I don't know if the reason from repigmentation was the gluten free diet and this cream or what. Now I am waiting to the cream. So when arrive me and start again with the treatment, I will tell you about my experience.
     Anyway, I have to tell you that apart from my gluten free diet I eat a lot of omega 3 food, like tuna, sardins, salmon, nuts, sunflower seeds...

    I think the diet has to be important regarding vitiligo repigmentation, so I will continue trying in this way.

    We will be in contact!

    :-)

    • silvia bonilla > Ainara Iturbe Zumeta July 28, 2015 at 10:39pm

      Thanks a lot Ainara for sharing your experience with me, at the moment i stopped again with protopic since i just discovered that i am pregnant:) so for the protection of the baby i stopped and well i am also trying to do a good diet and see what can i use while i am pregnant? any ideas?? And the cream that u used , is it also good for pregnant women? thanks a lot

      greetings

      • Ainara Iturbe Zumeta > silvia bonilla July 29, 2015 at 8:52am

        Hi Silvia,

        First of all congratulations for your pregnant, I am glad! About if the cream is good or not for pregnant women, I can't answer you, due to I don`t know. I think it would be better not to cream until the baby born. After, surely you will have enough time to give it. Our treatments will be for long time.

        About diets, I have a lot of dubts too. Now I am trying to continue a mediterranean healthy diet. I am reading things about paleo diet, but I still don't dare to do the change. Some weeks ago I did the change and I started with paleo diet, but in 4 days I lost 2 kg, and I am quite slim woman, so I decided to stop. Anyway, you can red a lot about this diet online.

        Best wishes,

        Ainara

        • ekaterine > Ainara Iturbe Zumeta September 8, 2015 at 2:45am

          Hello Ainara, I have just read your posts,I am new here and I have only one spot,i have read a lot about vitiligo, and many people advice me to go on dead sea, I read that its very good for us,it is the lowest place on earth and the most salty and the place where doctors let patience to take sun bath. and its salty sea helps us.Do you know anything about it?

          Thank you in Advance

        • silvia bonilla > Ainara Iturbe Zumeta July 30, 2015 at 12:00am

          Thanks a lot Ainara, i will do a research too. I hope everything comes out good for everybody with this situation. And i can imagine about losing weight hehe. I will give it a try to the cream after baby is born,

    • Robot > Ainara Iturbe Zumeta July 23, 2015 at 7:29pm

      Ainara,  which cream are you talking about?

  • Erin Elizabeth July 21, 2015 at 4:55am

    From what i have read so far the issue seems to be 2 things; B12 deficiency (as mostly is from meat) and tryptophan (amino acid also from meat). 

    If you do your homework and eat proper balanced diet of amino acids, PUFA's and antioxidants in theory it shouldn't be an issue.  I have read also excess animal fat can be unhelpful for vitiligo.

    interesting question though because India has the highest prevalence of vitiligo and also a high prevalence of vegetarianism. I am going to try and find if there is any data on this. 

    • Robot > Erin Elizabeth July 21, 2015 at 10:03am

      Erin,

      It's interesting you mentioned the vegetarianism prevalence as a likely explanation to the high vitiligo sufferer index in India.  I have thought a lot about it.  A have a different guess to share with you. 

      I'm Brazilian.  There is a state in Brazil called Bahia that has some similarities with India.   It's a nice place, but with a high index of food contamination, since people from Bahia sell a lot of food on the streets.

      I was wondering if that could be the case in India.  If so,  it would confirm a high level of oxidative stress  caused by food contamination.  Oxidative stress is definitely one of the main causes of non-segmental vitiligo.

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