Diet for children with vitiligo

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People who know about vitiligo know that vitiligo is a terrible skin disease without age limit, skin color limit and gender limit. According to the clinical data, the general age of onset of vitiligo is 10-30 years old, the first onset of vitiligo is 10 years old, and the proportion of all children with vitiligo is almost one third. Therefore, the treatment of children with vitiligo is particularly important. At the same time of treatment, diet is also a very important part of the disease. So what should children's diet pay attention to?

Diet for children with vitiligo

1. Supplement trace elements, especially copper, iron and zinc. Studies have found that children with vitiligo and trace element deficiency, copper, iron, zinc and other trace elements deficiency lead to the lack of tyrosinase activity in the body of patients, melanin cell damage, and then reduce melanin synthesis. 　　

2. Don't be partial to food. The vast majority of children with vitiligo have the symptoms of low immunity, which has a great relationship with partial diet. In order to improve immunity, the diet of children with vitiligo must ensure balanced nutrition supplement, not partial diet and picky food. The healthy development of the human body needs a variety of nutrients, especially children are in a critical period of physical development, should avoid malnutrition. Many children patients, food bias is very serious, but parents often indulge their children, leading to many children with vitiligo diet there are more serious problems.

3. Eat less sweets and snacks. The nutritional value of sweets and snacks is not high, and polysaccharides are high in heat energy. Long time eating will cause malnutrition, induce diseases, and affect the normal development of children. Therefore, parents should limit or even prohibit sweets and snacks for children, and never let sweets and snacks become children's "staple food". Some studies have pointed out that long-term consumption of sweet food will reduce the human body's immunity and easily suffer from cold and other diseases.

matters needing attention

Vitiligo patients do not need to pay too much attention to dietary taboos, to ensure the body's nutritional needs at the same time, avoid wine, pepper, raw garlic, mutton and other spicy food can be. It is also said that vitamin C can interrupt the synthesis of melanin, thus preventing the regeneration of melanin in the lesion. So vitamin C more food, such as orange, grapefruit, apricot, hawthorn, cherry, kiwi, strawberry, red bayberry, less food.