Demystifying Vitiligo

April 5, 2018 08:35 am

When 49-year-old shopkeeper Indra Krishna Shrestha noticed an unusual white spot in his right arm for the first time, he wanted to try anything possible to get rid of it. But back then, at 30, he used to earn living working at a workshop and had no time to spare for anything else as he was totally consumed with his work-home-work routine. So despite the wish, he could not do much. In the past 19 years, he saw pale white patches spread all over his body except for the lower parts of the eyes. During all those years, he never visited a dermatologist for treatment of this ‘much-heard-about’ but ‘totally-unknown’ skin disease called Vitiligo (Dubi).