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Vitiligo

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What is Vitiligo?

Vitiligo is a chronic (long-lasting) autoimmune disorder that causes patches of skin to lose pigment or color. This happens when melanocytes – skin cells that make pigment – are attacked and destroyed, causing the skin to turn a milky-white color.

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The main symptom of vitiligo is loss of natural color or pigment, called depigmentation. The depigmented patches can appear anywhere on your body and can affect: Skin, which develops milky-white patches, often on the hands, feet, arms, and face. However, the patches can appear anywhere.

Complications of vitiligo are social stigmatization and mental stress, eye involvement like iritis, depigmented skin is more prone to sunburn, skin cancer, and hearing loss because of loss of cochlear melanocytes.

Vitiligo is caused by the lack of a pigment called melanin in the skin. Melanin is produced by skin cells called melanocytes, and it gives your skin its colour. In vitiligo, there are not enough working melanocytes to produce enough melanin in your skin.

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  • Pernicious anemia.
  • Psoriasis.
  • Rheumatoid arthritis.
  • Systemic lupus erythematosus.
  • Thyroid disease.
  • Type 1 diabetes.
  • Protect your skin from the sun.
  • Never use a tanning bed or sun lamp.
  • Avoid cuts, scrapes, and burns.
  • If you want to add color to your skin, use camouflage makeup, self-tanner, or skin dye.
  • Know the risks of getting a tattoo.

How is it diagnosed?

How is it diagnosed?
  • Protection from the sun. Sunburn is a severe risk if you have vitiligo.
  • Vitamin D.
  • Skin camouflage.
  • Topical steroids.
  • Referral.
  • Topical pimecrolimus or tacrolimus.
  • Phototherapy.
  • Skin grafts.
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How is it treated?

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your doctor takes some tissue on your pigmented skin, puts the cells into a solution and then transplants them onto the prepared affected area. The results of this repigmentation procedure start showing up within four weeks. Possible risks include scarring, infection and uneven skin tone.

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