Is vitiligo contagious

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Cousin is a vitiligo patient, recently planned to marry her boyfriend, heard that vitiligo is contagious, cousin feel very afraid, also do not know whether it is true, let me talk about it with you.

Is vitiligo contagious

First: vitiligo may not be inherited, but there is a certain genetic susceptibility. In other words, genetic factors play a certain role in the occurrence of vitiligo. Some scholars reported that vitiligo may be a chromosomal dominant genetic disease. However, no specific dominant gene was found. Domestic scholars have found that the incidence rate of vitiligo is very small in the family members of vitiligo patients through large-scale epidemiological investigation.

Second: from the analysis of the whole population, heredity is only a factor in the pathogenesis of vitiligo. In fact, vitiligo is due to the skin and hair follicle melanocytes decreased or intracellular tyrosinase activity decreased or disappeared, resulting in reduced melanin synthesis, leading to localized or generalized discoloration lesions.

Third: the reason why vitiligo is not infectious, vitiligo is a local skin melanin metabolism disorder caused by skin discoloration lesions, the pathogenesis of vitiligo is very complex, precisely because of this, there is no specific drug or method in the radical cure of vitiligo, and the impact of vitiligo on the appearance of many patients with vitiligo shame, anxiety, fear, even fear Refuse to contact with society. Therefore, when normal people encounter vitiligo patients, do not give more attention, surprise, pity, or fear because of their exposed white spots.

matters needing attention

First of all, vitiligo is not an infectious disease, which we must understand. Therefore, generally speaking, vitiligo will not infect others. Patients can not worry about this. For vitiligo, active treatment is still needed.