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 1.Follow the doctor's advice: Take medicine on time and with proper quantity , don't change dose or time of taking medicine personally. In treatment, unexpected conditions such as cold , trauma and allergy may happen.You should keep in touch with the doctor in charge to dispose positively and correctly. Vitiligo should turn better in 15 to 30 days after treatment, if not,you should get in touch with the doctor in charge without delay and adjust the therapeutic method. Therefore, in the course of treatment, you should be diagnosed by the doctor face to face every half month to observe changes of the state of illness. If you can't receive face-to-face diagnosis on time because of far distance, you should take a photo of the affected part for the doctor to observe.

2.Daily mentality: When vitiligo patients encounter frustration or something unexpected, they are more likely to lose confidence and courage to continue living compared to the healthy. So, the patients must pay attention to the improvement of psychological diathesis, learn to adjust abnormal emotion, and dispel psychological conflict and pressure, which will help a lot to personal job, life and early recovery.

3.Tips on diet:The deficiency of some metal microelement of vitiligo sufferers' blood and white spot area results in the decline of tyrosinase activity,influence the anabolism of melanin,thus the pathological changes emerge.So,sufferers ought to eat the food rich in copper,zinc,ferrum and other metallic element to enhance the tyrosinase activity to accelerate melanin regeneration.In daily life,more foods containing tyrosin and mineral substance should be eaten,such as animal livers,eggs(hen egg,duck egg,quail egg),milks(cow milk,yoghurt),vegetables(turnip,eggplant,winter bamboo shoot,agaric,kelp),beans(soy,pea,mung bean,bean product),peanut,black sesame,walnut,raisin,shellfish and sea cucumber.

4.Tips on going out:Don't constantly bask.The cause of vitiligo is the regeneration obstacle of melanin in partial skin and hair follicle ,which was caused by genetic,immune,mental and other factors.And the ultraviolet rays in the sunshine can promote the metabolism of melanin.For this reason,bask appropriately can transfer the melanin cells to the cortex and darken the skin color,thus be good for the vitiligo treatment.However,in the sweltering hot summer,the ultraviolet rays in the sunbeam restrain the melanin metabolism instead,and is harmful to the melanin regeneration.Therefore,sun should be avoided in summer.