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  Michelle H July 2, 2009 at 5:18pm

  My husband has vitiligo and we are pretty confident my 9 1/2 year old daughter also has it. Last week she showed us some spots on her legs and we took her to our pediatrician the next morning. He is confident that it is vitiligo and started her on a steroid cream for 2 weeks and then protopic for 2 weeks. I cannot get into our dermatologist until July 30th and we have another appt. with a dermatologist at our childrens hospital on Oct. 20th. The spots seem to be going from a slight discoloration to white and spreading. I saw 1 small spot on her face yesterday and then another today. My heart is breaking for her and I want to do everything I can. I am doing lots of research on line. I think you have to be your own advocate. What can anyone recommend? At this point she doesn't think anything about it, except it is a pain to have mom put medicine on me and I have spots like Daddy. He is 40 and isn't very wide spread. He has it on his legs, hands and feet. Just recently a little around the lips. Does the pattern of vitiligo seem similar between family members?