JS Pasricha MD PhD
Professor and Head (Retd) All India Institute of Medical Sciences
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How to Cure a Skin Disease: Vitiligo
First Edition: 2014
9789351521198
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5Dedication
A disease can be cured only if the patient follows the protocol strictly and completes the treatment properly and diligently.
There are, however, several associates of the patient who (unintentionally) try to misguide the patient because of their own misconcepts.
This book is dedicated to all the patients who displayed adequate wisdom to avoid being misguided by the distractors and carried out the treatment as per the protocol.
7Preface
Every patient desires that his/her disease should be cured for life. This desire, however, is an unrealistic and illogical demand because there is almost no disease which does not have recurrences.
We, on the other hand, have been able to cure some very serious and even potentially fatal skin diseases like pemphigus, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), systemic sclerosis, etc. with the dexamethasone-cyclophosphamide pulse (DCP) regimen designed by us for these diseases. The patients have remained free of the disease for 10–20 years of follow-up after completing the treatment without any maintenance therapy.
This encouraged us to believe that skin diseases can, in fact, be cured for life if the patient receives proper medicines in an appropriate dose for an adequate duration of treatment. In all such cases, it is essential that the patient follows the protocol strictly.
The Modified Oral Mini-pulse (OMP) regimen designed for curing vitiligo has shown us very promising results and it is hoped that vitiligo can also now be added to the group of Curable Skin Diseases.
JS Pasricha