{"id":2697,"date":"2018-11-09T14:40:28","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T13:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tratamientodelvitiligo.es\/?p=2697"},"modified":"2018-11-20T15:02:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T14:02:50","slug":"fototerapia-la-mejor-opcion-para-tratar-el-vitiligo-cuando-falta-el-sol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tratamientodelvitiligo.es\/en\/blog\/fototerapia-la-mejor-opcion-para-tratar-el-vitiligo-cuando-falta-el-sol\/","title":{"rendered":"Phototherapy, the best option for treating vitiligo when there is a lack of sunshine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the days grow shorter and the sunlight starts to be missed, phototherapy becomes increasingly important in sustaining vitiligo treatment during the autumn and winter months.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Phototherapy has found a firm position as a frontline treatment against vitiligo and other skin diseases, such as psoriasis.<\/p>\n<p>Within phototherapy, UVB narrow-band (UVB-nb) is a therapy in which the patient\u2019s skin is exposed exclusively to wavelengths of ultraviolet light that have been medically studied and selected as the most beneficial.<\/p>\n<p>UVB-nb phototherapy provides the following benefits in vitiligo treatment:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It contributes to repigmenting areas affected by vitiligo<\/li>\n<li>It helps stop it progressingn<\/li>\n<li>It stimulates melanocyte reserves<\/li>\n<li>It has fewer side effects than UVA phototherapy, and produces fewer burns<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At Abedul Productos Farmac\u00e9uticos we market a domestic use<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tratamientodelvitiligo.es\/en\/product\/lampara-de-fototerapia-uv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> UVB-nb phototherapy lamp<\/a>, which means patients can treat their vitiligo from the comfort of their own home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the days grow shorter and the sunlight starts to be missed, phototherapy becomes increasingly important in sustaining vitiligo treatment during the autumn and winter months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tratamientodelvitiligo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tratamientodelvitiligo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tratamientodelvitiligo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tratamientodelvitiligo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tratamientodelvitiligo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tratamientodelvitiligo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tratamientodelvitiligo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tratamientodelvitiligo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tratamientodelvitiligo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tratamientodelvitiligo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}