What are the symptoms of vitiligo in children

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See my uncle's children have a lot of massive white spots on the neck, which is very similar to the vitiligo I met before. I'm a little worried because it's very troublesome to know the treatment of the disease. What's special about the child's symptoms? Now let's learn about the symptoms of children's vitiligo.

What are the symptoms of vitiligo in children

First: Patients with vitiligo will find white spots on their own skin, but here the skin maintains normal structure, and the affected area has no itching or other symptoms. It is especially obvious in places easily exposed to sunlight, including hands, feet, arms, legs, face, lips, etc. Other areas prone to white spots are armpit, groin, mouth, eyes, nostrils, navel, genitalia, etc.

Second: vitiligo generally appears in three ways, some pigment loss only appears in a very small area, some only occurs in unilateral body (segmental vitiligo), but most patients have it in all parts of the body (generalized vitiligo), and it is generally symmetrical. In addition, some patients with white spot parts of the hair will become white, and even affect the color of the eyes or retina, causing cataract and other complications.

Third: the symptoms of vitiligo, vitiligo patients with white spot color will change with the change of the disease, vitiligo early white spots are mostly light white, slowly developed into cloud white, pure white, porcelain white. Hair on the lesion. In the early stage of vitiligo, the symptoms of hair whitening rarely occur. If the condition is not controlled in time, the hair can turn white or even fall off after a long time.

matters needing attention

In fact, the main feature of the symptoms of vitiligo is leukoplakia, most of the symptoms of patients are not itchy, do not pay attention to it may also ignore the disease, or suggest that patients have early treatment, vitiligo is absolutely can not eat seafood, this point has to pay attention to.