Can skin disease vitiligo infect

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There is a classmate in our class, because he suffered from vitiligo this disease, so he became particularly silent, unwilling to communicate with everyone, usually also unwilling to actively participate in the activities of class dinner, let's talk about the skin disease, vitiligo will be infectious.

Can skin disease vitiligo infect

First: vitiligo is acquired due to skin depigmentation and the occurrence of limited white patches, making the local skin white spot like. The disease is usually called depigmentation in medicine. There is a certain relationship between vitiligo and heredity, and it is not uncommon for father and daughter, mother and son, mother and daughter, twin brothers and sisters to get sick clinically.

Second: vitiligo may be caused by an autosomal dominant gene abnormality, but from the genetic point of view, heredity is only a factor in the pathogenesis of vitiligo. In addition, there are many causes of vitiligo, and the genetic factors and environmental factors vary from person to person. Vitiligo is not contagious, and will not be transmitted through diet.

Third: the pathogenesis of vitiligo is very complex, its etiology involves genetic, immune, endocrine, metabolic, neuropsychiatric and other functional abnormalities, as well as a variety of external factors stimulation, but certainly not by infectious pathogenic factors (virus, bacteria, fungi, parasites, etc.) directly caused, belongs to non infectious diseases, so it is not infectious, direct contact with patients with vitiligo is not easy It's going to get sick.

matters needing attention

In general, the skin disease vitiligo is not contagious, so we do not need to worry about this problem, in addition, because the psychological pressure of patients with vitiligo must be great, so we as their friends, must not discriminate against them, equal treatment is very important.