What are the symptoms of vitiligo

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After the white spots appeared on her sister, we went to the Dermatology Hospital and were diagnosed with vitiligo. After a period of time, the color of her damaged parts changed to light pink, and her hair turned white. Next, I will talk about the symptoms of vitiligo.

What are the symptoms of vitiligo

First, there is no significant difference in gender, all age groups can have the disease, but teenagers are more likely to have the disease. The lesions are depigmented spots, usually milky white or light pink, with smooth surface and no rash. The white spot boundary is clear, the edge pigment increases compared with the normal skin, and the hair in the white spot is normal or white. Most of the lesions were distributed symmetrically.

Second, leukoplakia is often arranged in strips according to the distribution of ganglion segments. In addition to skin damage, labia, labia, glans and inner prepuce mucosa are often involved. Most of the patients had no symptoms, and a few patients had local itching before or at the same time. Vitiligo is often accompanied by other autoimmune diseases, such as diabetes, thyroid disease, adrenal insufficiency, scleroderma, atopic dermatitis, alopecia areata and so on.

Third: focal type one or more leukoplakia are limited in one area, but not in segmental distribution; unilateral type (segmental type) one or more leukoplakia are in segmental distribution, suddenly disappeared in the midline; mucosal type only involves mucosa. The common type is extensive and scattered white spot; the facial acrotype is distributed in the face and limbs; the mixed type is segmental type, facial acrotype and / or common type.

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Doctors said that vitiligo patients in the disease after the most obvious symptoms of limbs and body will appear white spots, human hair will be white. And the symptoms will be more serious in the parts exposed to sunlight. And there may be some other complications caused by vitiligo.