Vitiligo is a skin disease that is the reason why the double skin color. Symptoms of the disease are white spots or patches on the skin of different areas. The main cause of the disease is the loss or absence of skin pigment cells.
Depigmentation is a term of loss of pigment cells of the skin. Cells are known as melanin pigment in the skin. It produces pigment cells in three different colors (yellow, black and brown).
It is found that the amount of pigment cells is very present in people’s skin color (Asian people) instead of white. Melanin gives skin cells, eye and hair its natural color. These cells are specially produced from special skin cells called melanocytes, which is present in the basal layer of the epidermis. Sometimes, for various reasons such as heredity, nutritional deficiencies, immune system, physical damage, physical illness, taking excessive amounts of antibiotics, the sun, the changing weather conditions, etc. can affect the ability of cell production of melanin in the skin, whose skin produces less melanin cells after a while the skin cells and tissue becomes dehydrated and dull, and they change the natural color of their skin.
The skin condition vitiligo affects 40 50 million people with the proportion of 1 to 2. The condition of the objectives of every age and race of men and women. Many people involved in the course of the disease at birth, and many are involved in the inheritance and the rest of this disease usually involved at the age of 35 years or above to40.
Vitiligo is not contagious. Therefore, it can not spread from person to person by touch, married or living with the patient and so on.
Diagnosing the disease is so simple. A doctor or other person can easily understand that in the disease twice the color of people suffer simply because of the appearance of white spots of vitiligo / stains on it.
In the primary phase of the disease, when the skin becomes first vitiligo white spots (s) are very small and limited to specific areas of the body (especially in those parts of the body exposed to the sun) but after a time period of the white spot of vitiligo (s) becomes the target vitiligo patch (s) that are large and begin to cover all areas of the body skin.
Unfortunately, there is no vitiligo cure yet available in medical science, but vitiligo treatments such as psychotherapy, ayurvedic therapy (PUVA) photo-chemotherapy, homeopathic treatment, transplantation of skin , a skin graft through blisters, oral psoralen therapy, topical therapy, psoralen, etc. useful source of repigmentation of the skin. These vitiligo treatment can not cure the disease, but through the reproduction of pigment cells of the skin, these treatments help patients to get a single color.
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