Vitiligo treatments are helpful in re-pigmenting the lost skin color but these treatments do not permanently cure the basic abnormality. Because of the presence of so many it has become difficult to select a treatment.
Hypopigmentation is the unusual lack of skin color which is caused by diminution in melanin. Hypopigmentation often associated with albinism, vitiligo or serious injury.
Vitiligo causes loss of pigment and due to loss of pigment no protection against sun rays is left. Melanin (pigment that gives color to the skin) helps in protecting our skin from harmful UV rays of sun.
