Treatment options for white spots in lips – Dr. Rasya Dixit

White spots on the lips are usually a condition called as vitiligo. So vitiligo is a condition for some reason where our body’s immune system attacks the pigmented layer of the skin and it causes depigmentation of the skin. So when this happens you have a white patch on the lip. This becomes worse with biting, frequent lip licking and removing the skin on the lips makes this white patch appears more prominent. First and more importantly, stop picking at your lips. Stop biting at this lips use a moisturizer frequently and lip balm frequently. Nowadays even the lip balms contain sunscreen. So use sunscreen containing lip balms frequently. Application of particular creams which will also help to repigment the skin. So this will be prescribed by a dermatologist. So meet a dermatologist and get treatments with topical cyclosporine creams and you have melanin regrowth creams which will help to regiment the lips. even if the patient does no come back even after using the cream after a fixed period of time of minimum one year and the condition is not improving, you can even consider tattooing the lips with a natural lip pigments so that the colour returns to normal.