Leprosy Mailing List – December 13th, 2007
Ref.:
Dapsone it is
not a medication that is considered typical for use for vitiligo
From:
James J.
Nordlund, Cincinnati, USA
Dear Dr.
Salafia,
Dapsone, a medication I have used many times for
various disorders, is not a standard medication used to treat patients
with vitiligo. I have read many reviews and it is not a
medication that is considered typical for use for vitiligo.
Some of the comments you make are correct.
Dapsone does cause hemolysis but that has no known relevance to
vitiligo. Pheomelanins are not white melanins but are orange red
color. That is what the word “pheo-“ means, orange red.
Patients with vitiligo have neither pheomelanin or eumelanin in the
white skin because there are no melanocytes in the white skin.
I have not read your article in the
Italian journal or your book but would like to have the opportunity to
do so. I am quite willing to look at the data and change my
opinion if your data are sufficient. Please send me a copy if
possible of whatever data you have collected.
Yours sincerely,
James J. Nordlund, MD
