We saw spots???

Back on July 21st we noticed that Emmersyn had a few white patches of skin under her arms. We always new she had two spots, but we noticed a few more, then some more. Matt & I got on-line & started doing some research to find out what might cause loss of skin pigmentation. We could only find one thing, Vitiligo. On Monday July 23rd I took her to the doctor just to make sure nothing was really wrong.

He looked at the spot & told us there are only a few things this could be, so lets treat the lesser of the two & see if it clears up. So we got a body wash type medicine that we had to put on her for 5 minutes then wash off. We were told we would have results almost immediately & to use it for two weeks. Two weeks came & went, not better & little worse.

Back to the doctor on Aug 8th, he said since it's not getting better he would refer us to a Dermatologist. The appointment get set for Sept 5th. Since we had almost a month to wait until we saw the dermatologist he wanted to try a stronger sulfide lotion medicine. This again we were to put on her twice a day & wash off 5 minutes later. Try this for two weeks, again results should be immediate. No luck.

Yesterday Sept 5 after Emma got out of school we headed to the Dermatologist, Emmersyn pointed out her spots & the doctor new that is was the skin disorder Vitiligo.

People with Vitiligo have little to No natural pigment protection. This disorder affects 1% of the population. It can be cyclic, intermittent or progressive. Spontaneous remission may also occur. They not sure of what the cause is. We also found out that treatment is difficult since there really isn't any. Treatment will only chase the problem it wont heal or cure anything. One thing that should help is make sure she is lathered in sunscreen whenever she is outside. If the spots start to bother Emma then we can use sunless tanner or make-up to cover them up.

If we feel the problem is getting worse we can take her back to the Dermatologist & start some kind of treatment with the knowledge that there is less than a 50% change nothing will change.

We will take this one step at a time, we are not too worried about it at this point. We were given some more information & a few website addresses that we can use too. We now have to remember the sunscreen all the time. If things change I will keep you updated.