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This Page is Translated In English From Spanish Some of these words may not make sense... (figure it out) Vitiligo: Overcoming from Cuba the stranger New version of the only medicine in the world that
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By Alexis Schlachter, correspondent
of the Latin American Informative Service of the OEI, Havana, Cuba. According to data of the World-wide
Organization of the Health (the WHO), 1% of the world-wide population suffer,
at the present time, from Vitiligo, a disease whose origin is still not
known, that physically does not annihilate but, gradually, can get to destroy
siquis, the emotional stability and the own self-esteem of the patients. Around 60 million inhabitants of the
planet they suffer badly that does not have borders nor stops in ages or sex.
An epidemic cruel and, during centuries, unbeatable is considered. |
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But from 1980 the principle of the
aim of the Vitiligo in Cuba began, when the 14 of February of the same
year, the sanitary authorities of the Caribbean nation presented officially
the encouraging results certain medicine based on an extracted substance
of the human placenta, whose commercial name would be since then Melagenina.
Eighteen years later, the main author of the discovery, doctor Carlos
Miyares Cao, has processed a version improved now with the name of Melagenina
Extra, with patent of invention registered not only in Cuba, but also
in the United States, Japan, India, Hungary, Great Britain, Russia,
Germany, Sweden and France. A little
history Vitiligo comes from the Latin vitium,
word equivalent to spot, and was at the beginning of the Christian Era
when the Latin doctor Aulo Corneliu Celso gave the name him with which
he is known badly in the present time. The Vitiligo is reported in as
old documents as the papyrus of Ebers or the own Bible - where white
leprosy is called to him in " incorrect form " - and in Hindu
and Buddhist sacred books. Their analysis and pursuit have been
from so distant times extremely difficult, because it can be confused
easily with other producing diseases also of white spots on the skin.
They are looked to him like the call disease of foot Bald or the Pitiriasis
Versicolor; first it is a dermatológica affection caused by a fungus,
whereas second it constitutes a species of albinism in the skin that,
inclusively, can be transmitted in hereditary form, always affecting
the same zone in the descendants. Also traumatic despigmentaciones can
happen like, for example, in the fingers of the photographers when working
in the revealed one with chemical substances of the Quinona type.
A biopsy is the solution, although
this type of examination, by the traumatic thing, is only used in extreme
cases of doubt. If in the analysis by means of the microscope there
is absence of melanocitos and melanina in the basal layer of epidermis,
then the presence of the Vitiligo will be verified definitively. I know that in this point the readers
- who not necessarily are specialistic in subjects dermatológicos- will
be asking themselves what is the melanocitos and what meaning has in
the Vitiligo the melanina absence. It arrives, then, the moment for
explaining such terms. Porqué of
the Vitiligo In our skin - in mine, in hers and
the one of all certain called cell Melanocito exists, producer of a
pigment known with the name of Melanina; she is the one that fixes the
color white, black, yellow or chocolate-like in our skins. From here... where it is the fault
that gives rise to the despigmentación of the skin, characteristic of
the Vitiligo? Then in the progressive disappearance of the melanocito
and, with that cell, the corresponding pigment. Still it is not known accurately what
triggers the negative process that leaves spots white, very white in
any skin. Only which, in the phenomenon, the absence acts directly of
melanocitos, producers of the melanina pigment, whose function is similar
to the one of a natural parasol with which our organism protects itself
of the originating ultraviolet radiations of the sun. On the subject, something has powerfully
called the attention of the scientists: The melanocitos are a species
of prime brothers of the nervous cells. They are developed our nervous
system along with and, peculiarly, they have equal form, extended and
starred, of the neurons, that is to say, the nervous cells. And here
another unusual element arrives: The pigmentarias cells not only are
in the skin but, also, in the spinal marrow, the internal ear and until
in the base of the brain, places to where do not arrive solar rays.
Until the moment, science does not know porqué of such location. However, yes it is known that the pigmentarias
cells contain certain called enzyme Tirosinasa, person in charge, indeed,
of the pigmentación: by means of successive chemical transformations,
it gets to become the melanina that colors the skin of each one of us.
The origin of the process that still
triggers the Vitiligo finds in discussion between the scientists. Three
are the theories: the neurogénica, when supposedly the nervous system
produces certain substance that destroys to the melanocitos. From where
similar part point of view? Of the following data: Around 70% of the
aquejados patients of Vitiligo they begin the process of the despigmentación
after suffering extreme an emotional voltage. But it is left the doubt
still on... why they undergo also of Vitiligo calm people? One second theory sustains - without
being able to expose the reasons that the body begins to produce antibodies
able to destroy its own pigmentarias cells. The third thesis locates the cause
of the Vitiligo in a call " autointoxication of melanocitos ".
How it happens this? According to the lifting ones of such theory, during
the chemical production of the melanina toxic compounds form that, normally,
are eliminated, but - in a while determined and without well-known reason
still the melanocitos they are left disabled people to eliminate such
negative substances and begin to be accumulated until destroying the
pigmentadora capacity.
A remarkable percentage of treatments History began in 1968, when doctor Carlos Miyares Cao seted out to study the human placenta in the search of some substance that avoided the premature childbirths. In that way of investigations, certain day found that one of the extracted substances, to to the laboratory animal being applied produced in these a fort increase in the coloration of the skin. At that time, the soft one was specialistic in Pharmacology and also in Gynecology and Obstetrics, and although it knew on the Vitiligo, did not know the state of the processings for badly. Then, it looked for the advice of professor in Dermatolog?a, Manuel Taboas, who explained to him that the finding could be of extraordinary utility, because the medicines of the time - psoralenos- only improved but they did not cure definitively, with the aggravating one of being, in many cases, toxics. It was so, at the beginning of the 70, both organized the first clinical test of the discovered substance, with the due knowledge and approval of the Cuban sanitary authorities. The encouraging initial results impelled the experiment. That study lasted four years and demonstrated that the application of the Melagenina - registered tradename since then and that means " substance that generates melanina- cured in a 84% of the cases without secondary effects nor backward movements. Finally, doctors Miyares Cao and Manuel Taboas (passed away shortly after) received official certificate in Cuba like authors of invention by the discovery. At that time, Melagenina had to be rubbed every eight hours on the part of the skin affected by the Vitiligo, and like accelerating element of the curativo process, infrared light had to be used daily or to make a exhibition to the solar light in tropical countries. Without a doubt, to carry out strictly the plan mentioned, during months, was, at least, troublesome and boring. Some patients stopped, but who stayed firm, they obtained its definitive treatment in more of a 80%. The expensive one was the part of the body that more quickly improved, while the hands and the feet took around two years. Doctor Miyares Cao was not pleased with the mentioned results, and he seted out to develop a new version of the medicine, of easier application. In 1998 it obtained its objective. Consulted by the OEI, the doctor it explained that the Melagenina Extra is only needed to apply Once To the DAY on the despigmentadas parts of the body, with no need of exhibitions to the infrared light nor to the lot. Melagenina Extra already is applied in the Center of Histoterapia Placentaria from Havana to patients of 123 countries, with highly positive results that surpass the percentage of treatments obtained with the first version of the medicine. Compatible institutions that already use Melagenina Extra find in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Uruguay, whereas in Europe and Asia they exist clinical specialized located in Russia, Spain, the Ukraine, Kazajstan and Kirguizia. Still without still knowing the root of that modern epidemic that responds to the name of Vitiligo, Cuban science - really, Latin American finishes taking a remarkable step of advance in the definitive cure.
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