Main symptoms of vitiligo

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Today, I went to my elder brother's house to see my little nephew. My little nephew is still as enthusiastic as before, very happy to run to meet me. But I found white spots on the little guy's arm. I told my elder brother and took him to the hospital. The doctor said it was vitiligo. Today I want to talk about the main symptoms of vitiligo.

Main symptoms of vitiligo

Symptom 1: vitiligo symptoms: 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.

Symptom 2: vitiligo will appear on the normal skin of patients with white spots, usually white spots will have the size of rice, nail cap, and patches have light white, gray white, milky white, white degree is different, the size and number of white spots will change with the change of the disease, will also vary from person to person.

Symptom 3: vitiligo presents punctate spots, and the surface spots are obvious. Some white spots around the edge of the pigment band, the initial majority of patients with vitiligo white spot area is relatively small, there are a very small number of patients with early onset is particularly fast, rapidly evolved into generalized vitiligo, white spot area spread to the whole body.

matters needing attention

Vitiligo is a common and stubborn skin disease. Once vitiligo patients suffer from vitiligo due to various reasons, it will cause great physical and mental pain to the patients, and it will have a serious impact on the work, life and learning of the patients.