What are the main symptoms of vitiligo

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My friend's son, in his twenties this year, has been working in other places. Recently, when he came home from a holiday, his mother found some white spots on him, so she took him to the hospital for examination, and found that it was vitiligo. Now let's talk about the main symptoms of vitiligo.

What are the main symptoms of vitiligo

First: the skin lesions of vitiligo are pure white, round or irregular loss spots, with smooth surface, clear boundary and increased edge pigment. The whitened skin is more sensitive to sunlight than normal skin, and reddening when exposed to the sun. The course of the disease is slow, gradually expanding to all sides, and stops spreading when fusing with each other or reaching a certain degree. Vitiligo mainly occurs in the face, neck, limbs, waist, abdomen, back and other sweat gland rich parts, and develops rapidly in spring and summer.

Second: the symptoms of vitiligo are white spots on the skin, which are mostly pure white, round or irregular loss spots, with smooth surface, clear boundary, increased edge pigment, and no desquamation and itching. Whitened skin is more sensitive to sunlight than normal skin, and reddening when exposed to sunlight. Local skin was milky white spots, the hair of the affected area can be normal, but also variable white.

Third: no itching, even if there is a very slight. The number of discoloration spots is small, generally only 1-2 pieces, and most of them appear on the skin of the exposed parts. In addition to depigmentation, the skin at the decolorization spot is the same as the surrounding skin, without itching, desquamation or atrophy. In the absence of other skin diseases, early vitiligo should be considered first. The biggest characteristic of vitiligo is easy to spread.

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If you get vitiligo, patients will generally appear on the body white spots, and slowly spread to other parts, those more prone to sweating parts of the long will be more, and these long spot parts will not pain and itch, this situation may be vitiligo, must be diagnosed and treated in time.