Your Vitiligo Treatment Plan
This is the protocol in calendar form – what to do on which day, and what to check when. It is the schedule our founder used and the one we send to customers who ask "what exactly do I do?". Background and reasoning are in the 7-step protocol; dosing details in the phototherapy guide. Agree the plan with your dermatologist, especially for children.
Before day 1
- Dermatologist visit: confirm vitiligo (Wood's lamp), ask for blood tests – TSH, vitamin D, B12, folate, glucose. Treat what is out of range.
- Photograph every patch in daylight. Same place, same light, once a month from now on.
- Have ready: a 311 nm UVB lamp, Vitistop gel, Vitistop tablets (Vitix for children 3–11), vitamin D3, SPF 50+ sunscreen, goggles.
Every day
| When | What |
|---|---|
| Morning | 1 Vitistop tablet after breakfast · vitamin D3 (autumn–spring) · prescription cream if prescribed (not on lamp mornings) |
| Before going out | SPF 50+ on every exposed patch |
| Evening | Prescription cream if prescribed · remove camouflage · moisturise |
Lamp days – Monday, Wednesday, Friday (months 1–3)
- 60 minutes before: thin layer of Vitistop gel on the patches.
- Session: goggles on; lamp directly on the skin with the comb spacer.
- Week 1: 20 s per area. Then add 15–20 s per session.
- Target: faint pinkness a few hours later that is gone by next morning.
- Maximum 4–5 minutes per area; around the eyes maximum 1 minute.
- Redness lasting 2+ days → reduce by 45 s and hold.
- After: SPF 50+ if you go outside. No sunbathing on lamp days.
From month 4: Monday and Thursday only. After the patch has filled: once a week for 2–3 months, then stop, keep the daily routine.
Check-points
| When | What to expect | If not |
|---|---|---|
| 4 weeks | Patch edges pink after sessions; no new patches | Check dose (pinkness?), film removed from lamp, sessions regular |
| 6–12 weeks | First brown dots around hair follicles or colour from the edges | Increase dose to target; add prescription cream; check thyroid/vitamin D results |
| 3 months | Dots merging on face/trunk; 2–4-week tablet break, then continue | Review with dermatologist; compare photos, not memory |
| 6 months | Small patches closing; hands/feet showing first dots | Consider Vitipro gel; check lifestyle factors (sleep, stress, smoking) |
| 12 months | Most patches substantially repigmented; taper lamp | Hands, feet, lips may stay partial – decide with your dermatologist on surgery or camouflage |
Summer variant
Replace lamp sessions with 10–15 minutes of midday sun on the patches, three times a week, Vitistop gel 60 minutes before, SPF 50+ afterwards. Never sun and lamp on the same day; never let a patch burn.
Children
Same schedule with Vitix tablets (ages 3–11), tacrolimus 0.03 % instead of 0.1 %, an adult operating the lamp and shorter first exposures. See Vitiligo in children.
Everything you need
- Philips BU-1S UVB lamp · Dermalight 80R
- Vitistop gel · Vitistop tablets · Vitamin D3
- Sunscreen SPF 50+ · Camouflage
- Or the complete Dermalight 80R treatment package / Starter Set
Our free e-book with this plan and photos of real progress is available on request via contact. See the results of people who followed it in Your results.