What are the characteristics of vitiligo

Update Date: 2024-01-27 Source: Network

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My friend is suffering from vitiligo, which has several white plaques on his arm. When these plaques are serious, there will be symptoms of peeling and bleeding. For patients with vitiligo, they should receive treatment as soon as possible to avoid causing more serious harm to the body. Now I will tell you about the characteristics of the symptoms of vitiligo.

What are the characteristics of vitiligo

Symptom characteristics 1: early and late symptoms of vitiligo, vitiligo patients with early white spot number is not much, mainly limited to a part of the body, segmental vitiligo patients with white spot distribution in a ganglion segment or skin segment, but to the late stage of vitiligo will be relatively serious.

Symptom feature 2: vitiligo will gradually increase with the development of the disease, the number of white spots will gradually increase, and the adjacent white spots may be integrated with each other to form large-scale white spots. The whole body, like a map, is indistinct from the surrounding normal skin. If it occurs in people with white skin, it is easy to be ignored, but it is necessary to observe its "special" place in detail Itching, if any, is very mild.

Symptom characteristics three: the color of vitiligo patients with white spots will gradually deepen with the development of the disease, vitiligo is initially light white or milky white, with the damage of melanin cells in the lesions more and more serious. Melanin synthesis is less and less, white spots will develop from light white or milky white to deeper porcelain white.

matters needing attention

Vitiligo patients usually diet should pay attention to avoid eating foods rich in vitamin C, such as tomatoes, green peppers, oranges, kiwifruit, strawberries, etc., usually pay more attention to rest, maintain an optimistic attitude, pay attention to improve the body's immunity, too sour or spicy food may also affect the condition and treatment effect, not conducive to the treatment effect of vitiligo.