If many reports appear in the media about a miracle product, while it has not yet come out through the channels of dermatologists who do a lot of research into vitiligo, it usually concerns a product that promises a lot but does not really help much. This also applies to the treatment that would work against gray hair and vitiligo. For the time being, this does not seem to be the miracle cure that vitiligo patients are waiting for.

The LVVP asked the Netherlands Institute for Pigmentation Disorders Foundation/AMC for a response and received the following information:

'The research in question by Dr Karin Schallreuter was only carried out on 5 patients, but it is remarkable that UVB helped so well in these patients with segmental vitiligo (on one side of the body), and it is especially special that white hairs in the white spots re-pigmented. Dr Schallreuter has always operated somewhat on the margins of the scientific mainstream and the pseudocatalase research she has been conducting for years has never been replicated by others. We would therefore be wise to temper our high expectations until more extensive research in other research centers confirms these data.

By the way, much of the media attention was generated by the editor-in-chief of The FASEB Journal in which the research was published. The editor-in-chief stated in the press that a solution to the 'problem' of gray hair had now been found. But that's not what the research is about at all. After all, this has been performed on patients with segmental vitiligo. Dr Schallreuter does not claim that at all.

So unfortunately we will have to wait for some more research results.'

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