What are the symptoms of vitiligo

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I found a nail sized white spot on my body. At first, I didn't care about it, but later, the white spot was particularly obvious. I suspected it was vitiligo, so I wanted to go to the hospital for an examination, and the result was really vitiligo. Today, let me share with you the symptoms of vitiligo.

What are the symptoms of vitiligo

Symptom 1: vitiligo is depigmented white spots or patches. It's surrounded by normal skin. The size of decolorized spots varies from several millimeters to several centimeters. In the advanced stage, the lesions can gradually expand and new decolorized spots appear. In patients with lighter skin color, white spots may not be obvious, but people with dark skin color, color contrast is very bright.

Symptom 2: in the early stage, leukoplakia was mostly light white, and gradually developed into cloud white, pure white and porcelain white. In the early stage of vitiligo, there is a slightly raised inflammatory dark red on the edge of some new leukoplakia, which can last for several weeks. For the early leukoplakia with fuzzy boundary and no pigmentation.

Symptom 3: the initial symptoms of vitiligo are white spots and spread into patches for a long time. The affected area is white, which is more obvious with the normal skin color, and does not protrude from the skin pores occlusion. The affected area has smooth skin and no scales. In severe cases, the hair turns white.

matters needing attention

Vitiligo patients at the beginning of the onset, the body parts will appear white spots, the color of the diseased parts and other parts of the body have obvious differences, at the beginning of the white spot area is small, this time is the best time to treat white spots.