Is Protopic good and safe to use for treatment of vitiligo?
My dermatologist recomend me to make make use of of protopic for my vitiligo, though overtly we am kind of frightful to make make use of of it since of risk of skin cancer….so any help?
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hi,
I am 32 and have had eczema since childhood. I recently found out about protopic on the net and asked my doc for it about a year ago. I had to stop using steriods as they were recking my skin. I have found protopic worked amazingly well to begin with and am currently using it again at the mo. my tube size is 60g and I still have about half left. It doesn’t seem to be working quite so well now as it did in the beginning or else my eczema is in a particularly bad flare up.
I am sorry that I don’t know anything about vitiligo, but protopic supresses the immune system and that is how it prevents eczema breakouts. Like anything else it isn’t a magic cure but faced with this cream or nothing I chose this as my eczema is wide spread on my hands and makes life unbearable. I am still always on the lookout for other more gentle options though and would encourage anyone else to do the same.
Just make sure you use a spf on the body part you apply it to before going out in the sun. It’s winter in the uk so i’m wearing gloves anyway. But in the summer I wear white thin cotton gloves and put sun cream on the backs of my hands as well.
One thing I will just mention in can make my hands feel very hot and burny which I get with my eczema anyway, but this might be a new sensation for you so might want to have a cold bag of peas handy
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