What are the symptoms of vitiligo in children

Update Date: 2021-12-23 Source: Network

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Vitiligo is a common skin disease, the incidence of a wide range of patients, whether adults or children will suffer. If children suffer from vitiligo, because their body is in the stage of development, the body immunity is weak, so in the process of treatment of vitiligo, we should pay attention to the side effects of drugs, careful and rational use of drugs, to protect the physical and mental health of children and normal physical development. Let's take a look at the symptoms of vitiligo in children.

What are the symptoms of vitiligo in children

1. First, depigmentation of the skin. Depigmentation of skin is manifested as the change of skin color, showing porcelain white spots, and the size and shape of white spots are not the same. The boundary between the lesion and healthy skin is obvious, and the edge pigmentation increases, so the patients will not have obvious discomfort.

2. Secondly, children with vitiligo in general, the disease site is not itchy. But there are individual patients with pruritus in the white spot, which indicates that the affected area has the trend of diffusion and development. The incubation period of vitiligo does not mean that the disease will not develop in the future. Once the patient's cold, bad mood, external environment stimulation and other factors lead to viscera dysfunction, body immunity decline, the disease will continue to develop.

3. In addition, children with vitiligo appear more obvious white spots with normal skin color, does not protrude from the skin, pore occlusion, the affected skin is smooth, no scales, no pain and itching, mostly symmetrical distribution, individual patients with hair whitening, no obvious symptoms before onset.

matters needing attention

Children are a special group, their constitution is special. Therefore, in the treatment of vitiligo should be distinguished from adult patients with vitiligo, take more careful treatment, so as not to affect the physical and mental health of children. Once parents find that the child's body is abnormal, they must take the child to the regular professional hospital for examination in time.