What are the late symptoms of vitiligo

summary

Vitiligo is a common postnatal skin depigmentation disease, which is caused by the decrease of melanocytes or the disappearance of the function of melanocytes. It may occur in various parts of the body, but it is more common to occur in the back or wrist, neck or face. What are the late symptoms of vitiligo? Let's talk about my experience.

What are the late symptoms of vitiligo

First: the incidence of vitiligo and gender is not significantly related, in fact, most of the vitiligo attacks are manifested as depigmentation, often manifested as the skin is milky white or light pink, but the skin surface is smooth, there is no rash phenomenon. The distribution of vitiligo is also different, there are many types.

Second: vitiligo, the general boundaries of white spots are relatively clear, the edge of pigment is relatively normal, but white spots will become abnormal internal. The parts prone to white spots are often exposed to sunlight or severely worn parts. So we should always pay attention to the maintenance of these parts.

Third: Patients with vitiligo, most of the cases are not feeling symptoms, only a small part of the patients before or when the onset of mild itching. But vitiligo is often accompanied by other diseases, such as diabetes, thyroid disease, or adrenal insufficiency, these are other autoimmune diseases.

matters needing attention

There are many ways to treat vitiligo, such as medication or surgery. These two kinds of treatment methods are more. It can also be decolorization therapy, or physical therapy. Decolorization treatment is suitable for patients with large lesion area, more than half of the surface area. In fact, the number of people using this kind of treatment method is relatively small.