Is leukoplakia contagious

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Leukoplakia is a very serious disease. Some patients are very worried that the disease will infect their families. So how severe is leukoplakia? Is it easy to infect others? Let's learn about the infection of leukoplakia.

Is leukoplakia contagious

First: leukoplakia is not a source of infection, is not infectious. However, in real life, because of the lack of understanding of leukoplakia disease, when people see the symptoms of leukoplakia in the patient's skin, they will subconsciously avoid, afraid of being infected. Such behavior is neither necessary nor should be done.

Second: leukoplakia is not contagious. Generally, the factors that can cause leukoplakia include diet, trauma, emotion, decreased immunity and heredity. It is recommended that you go to the regular leukoplakia hospital in time to detect the cause of melanin deficiency, and start with targeted treatment from the root. At present, there are many clinical therapies, such as drugs, phototherapy, skin grafting, etc. with the doctor's treatment, it is believed that obvious results can be achieved soon .

Third: infectious diseases must have the source of infection, and leukoplakia is caused by microcirculation disorders, there is no source of infection, therefore, contact with patients with leukoplakia is not infectious, leukoplakia itself is not an infectious disease.

matters needing attention

In order to cure leukoplakia thoroughly, it is most important to do a good job in the examination. Patients with leukoplakia should not feel that there is no need to have this step of examination, and the cost of examination is also very high. But here we tell the patients: only by doing a good job in the diagnosis of vitiligo can we treat leukoplakia more accurately. In addition, patients must not listen to all the false information on some folk prescriptions for the treatment of leukoplakia and their advertisements.