Vitiligo is not painful or itchy, but because it affects the aesthetics, it brings inconvenience to the patient’s life and interpersonal communication, which can easily lead to low self-esteem and withdrawn psychology. The following content, you will have a general understanding of vitiligo, so you can face it squarely.
1, vitiligo will be contagious?
Vitiligo is a depigmentation change caused by local skin melanin metabolism disorder, there are no other abnormal changes except for hypopigmentation. Therefore, there is no contagious.
2, vitiligo and visceral disease related?
Skin disease is often an information code of visceral disease in the body surface, many internal diseases are related to the immune system, and vitiligo has a lot of accompanying gastrointestinal diseases, especially ulcer disease. The occurrence of ulcer disease and psychoneurological factors have a clearer relationship has been the consensus of the medical community, and psychoneurological factors, may also be one of the causes of the development of vitiligo.
3, vitiligo can be cured?
The cause of vitiligo is not very clear, its pathogenesis is more complex, and various triggering factors are interlinked and affect each other, treatment is quite difficult. The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who are not able to get a good deal on a lot of things. The majority of the vitiligo patients after treatment no longer develop, and have different degrees of improvement, completely cured cases are not uncommon.
The actual fact is that you will be able to get a lot of people to do the job. Therefore, patients should be patient with the doctor’s treatment, do not change the medication too often.
5, how to judge whether vitiligo treatment is effective?
After a period of vitiligo treatment, if the following performance occurs, it suggests that the drug treatment is effective: (1) the white spot no longer develops; (2) the edge of the white spot turns from fuzzy to clear; (3) the edge of the white spot appears coloring deepening; (4) the center of the white spot grows follicular black spot; (5) the color of the white spot turns red or lighter, blurred, and gradually inward.
6, vitiligo patients can get married, childbirth?
The cause and pathogenesis of vitiligo is not yet fully understood. Environmental factors (including lifestyle, work, study environment, diet, mental state and air, water etc.) also play an important role. The actual fact is that you will not be able to get a good deal on your own. The actual fact that the genetic factor varies from person to person. The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who are not able to get a good deal of money for the actual money.
7, what occupations are vulnerable to vitiligo?
There are vitiligo patients in all walks of life, and it is generally believed that there is no significant difference in the incidence of vitiligo between them. However, certain chemicals have a selective destructive effect on melanocytes, which can lead to skin depigmentation. Such as the production of rubber protective gloves raw materials of antioxidant hydroquinone derivatives, the production of p-tert-butylphenol resin industry, leather industry workers, with p-tert-butylphenol, o-benzyl p-chlorophenol disinfectant fungicide for disinfection cleaners; contact with such chemicals latex products production workers may produce occupational vitiligo.
8, vitiligo is likely to occur in which parts?
The white spots of vitiligo are likely to occur in the parts exposed to sunlight and friction, such as the face, neck, belt, sacral tail and back of the fingers and toes. In addition, women’s bra straps or buttons, the anal opening and female pubic area are also susceptible to the occurrence of vitiligo.
9.Is there a treatment method that works for all patients?
There is no one treatment method that works for all vitiligo patients. First of all, because the causes of vitiligo are different, and in addition there are individual differences, so different treatment methods will have different effects on different people. When a treatment method doesn’t work for you, it doesn’t mean that other treatment methods don’t work either.
10, can vitiligo patients dye their hair?
Vitiligo patients should avoid using hair dyes or bleaches. Some patients are very sensitive to these products, which may lead to further expansion of the white spots because the phenol and its derivatives contained in it can damage the melanocytes and contribute to the development of the white spots.
11, how to prevent or reduce the recurrence of vitiligo?
Avoid environmental and food pollution damage to the human body; reduce the exposure to harmful substances, especially phenolic compounds, paints and coatings, heavy metal salts, etc.; avoid exposure to the sun, to do a good job of sun protection measures; correct partial diet, to achieve a reasonable diet and nutritional balance; strengthen their own cultivation, maintain optimism, adjust their mindset at the right time, improve their ability to adapt to the environment.