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Illumination: how often should that actually be done?
It appears to make little difference to the end result of a light treatment whether you illuminate vitiligo spots two or three times a week.
Safely go into the sun – even with vitiligo spots!
Sun and vitiligo: do they fit together? Certainly! Sunlight is actually good, as long as you avoid getting sunburned. And any sunscreen will do.
Spotlight! No. 4 (2016): everything about light therapy
Light therapy is the most commonly used treatment for vitiligo. Yet many questions remain. In this issue of Spotlight! dermatologist David Njoo answers all those questions.
Light therapy can always be done at home
Nowadays, light therapy can always be done at home. That saves a lot of time, because you no longer have to go back and forth to the hospital for a few seconds of exposure. But how do you ensure that you get the right equipment at home?
The Spotlight!, the magazine of the LVVP, devoted an article to it in the last issue. It stated that it depends on the hospital's policy whether home lighting is offered. If this is not the case, you as a patient are free to transfer to an institution where home treatment is facilitated.
With a completed request from your practitioner, you can request the right equipment from Medizorg, for example. Sometimes it will be a small light unit for just hands or face, for example, but there can also be a complete cabin in which the entire body can be illuminated. Children can start using lighting from about the age of 8. The results are often good, especially in children with a darker skin type and spots on the face.
Read the article here Spotlight! 4 2013 pg 12-13
From now on also Spotlight! received? This can be done by becoming a member of the LVVP for only 26 euros per year (2016). Spotlight! is published four times a year. You then immediately support the association, which, among other things, promotes research into the cause and treatment of vitiligo.