How is red birthmark formed

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Red birthmark, also known as wine stains, flame nevus, strawberry hemangioma, strawberry capillary hemangioma. Most birthmarks only affect the appearance and do not need special treatment. However, some birthmarks may be associated with abnormalities of body organs, and even malignant changes, which must be treated actively. How is red birthmark formed? Let's have a look.

How is red birthmark formed

1. Birthmark is called "mother spot" or "nevus" in medicine. It is abnormal hyperplasia of skin tissue during development, and abnormal shape and color appear on the surface of skin. Birthmarks can be found at birth, or they may appear only a few months after birth

2. Port wine stains, commonly known as red birthmarks, are red plaques formed by numerous expanded capillaries and protruding from the skin surface. With the growth of age, capillary dilation gradually aggravates, plaque color will gradually deepen, red, purple. In addition to the superficial dermis, the deep and subcutaneous tissues of the lesions with protuberant or nodular lesions also showed vasodilation. The dilated vessels were filled with red blood cells, but the intradermal cells did not proliferate.

3. Port wine stains belong to congenital microvascular malformation, once it occurs, it will not retreat for life. 65% of the patients will have thickening and nodules before 40 years old, and they are prone to bleeding after trauma.

matters needing attention

Patients with birthmarks should eat more soybeans, mushrooms, cereals and other food, less alcohol, mutton, beef and seafood and other food, the affected area is often stimulated is also an important factor in the occurrence and development of birthmarks. If there is scab on the treatment site of birthmark, it needs to fall off by itself. Do not remove it by hand, otherwise the pigmentation will be serious and the scar will be easily left. The treatment site of birthmark should be kept clean to avoid infection and friction.