Vitiligo is a skin condition in which a light patch occurs on the skin. It is caused by the absence of pigment in the skin called melanin.
This disease affects any part of your skin, but most commonly it affects your face, neck, hands, and various skin folds.
Because the faint part of the skin is susceptible to sunburn, you need to use a sunburn and sunscreen with high sunburn preventive ingredient (SPF) or cover the part exposed to the sun.
These areas of the skin are most commonly affected by vitiligo symptoms:
- Skin around your mouth and eyes
- Finger
- Armpits
- Wrist
- Groin area
- Genitalia
A common myth about Vitiligo
Common myths about vitiligo diseases are as follows:
- Only dark skin people get vitiligo
- People with other physical and mental disabilities often use vitiligo
- It is easy to predict which people have vitiligo and how severe they are
- Vitiligo is associated with other skin diseases such as skin cancer
- People of vitiligo were born like this, because they have mixed parents,
- Vitreous exacerbates by ingesting specific types of food
- Vitiligo uses certain creams and oils on the skin, and certain supplements
- Vitiligo is contagious
- Vitiligo works only on the exposed skin such as face and hand
Facts about Vitiligo
Conversely, the fact of white spot disease is:
- Vitiligo is neither infectious nor infectious. I can not get it from others.
- Unfortunately, we have no way to treat vitiligo. There is not even a convenient and easy cure to delay the progression of the disease. However, there are treatments such as UV phototherapy, surgery such as the use of grafts, steroids, drug therapy.
- Vitiligo is not hereditary in nature. It has nothing to do with your parents' ethnicity.
- Vitiligo affects people of all races. However, it is more prominent in people with black skin.
- Vitiligo is not related to other skin conditions such as skin cancer, leprosy.
- Vitiligo usually causes white spots that occur in the area exposed to the sun, such as your hands, feet, face and lips. However, diseases can also affect other areas such as armpit, groin, eye, genital or rectal location.
- Vitiligo is not caused by food and your lifestyle
- Most people with vitiligo are normal and disease is not related to other disorders. However, the disease can be more common in people with other autoimmune disorders such as hypothyroidism, alopecia, adrenal cortical dysfunction etc.
- There is no way to predict this disease. There is no way to know how much of your skin will be affected. Vitiligo is usually progressive and white or discolored patches can spread to other areas of the body and become more aggressive over time.
If symptoms similar to typical white spot symptoms do not exist, you should contact a dermatologist. Dermatologists are experts and are trained in skin disorders.
