What is the difference between sweat spot vitiligo

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Perspiration spot and vitiligo are both skin related diseases, and the symptoms are almost the same. They are very familiar. It's easy to confuse and difficult to distinguish, but there are differences between them. Let's talk about the differences between perspiration spot and vitiligo.

What is the difference between sweat spot vitiligo

First: sweat spots are skin diseases caused by fungi. Skin damage is mainly light white. Most of the skin lesions are round or oval spots with fuzzy edges. The focus is that there are many fine scales on the surface of sweat spots, so it is also called tinea versicolor. The patient's skin surface is refractive, and fungi can be found directly by microscopy. Sweat spots mainly appear in the parts with developed sebaceous glands, such as the neck, upper chest, back and upper limbs. The depigmentation of the skin of patients with vitiligo is punctate or connected into a piece of white spots, the edge can have pigmentation, in the stable phase of vitiligo, the boundary is very clear, the surface is also free of scales, excessive sweating will not aggravate, of course, no fungi can be found under the microscope, this is the difference between vitiligo and sweat spots.

Second: sweat spot is the common name of tinea versicolor, which is a kind of superficial fungal disease caused by Malassezia furfur infection of cuticle. The pathogenic bacteria is a kind of lipophilic yeast, which is called Pityrosporum ovale or Pityrosporum orbiculatum. It is related to malnutrition, pregnancy, hyperhidrosis, chronic infection and other factors.

Third: vitiligo is a pigmented skin disease. At the beginning, the local skin without self-conscious symptoms turned white, gradually expanded, with clear boundary, smooth surface and no desquamation. Sweat spots, also known as tinea versicolor, often occur in sweaty parts, such as the chest, abdomen, upper arm, back and neck, and sometimes on the face. At the beginning, the rash appeared as small spots, mostly around the mouth of the hair follicle, and then gradually expanded to form patches of different sizes and colors ranging from light white to dark brown, on which small chaff like scales could be seen. Skin lesions develop with time, and can form depigmented spots over time, which is not easy to fade.

matters needing attention

Sweat spots and epilepsy are very similar diseases, but there are differences between them. The difference is that there are scales on the surface, one is not, one edge can be pigmented, and one edge is not, and its edge is fuzzy and unclear.