Freckles are scattered dark brown spots on the face and other places, commonly known as freckles. Many people know about freckles, but they don’t know why they are called freckles, but the name of freckles is indeed related to sparrows. To be precise, it has something to do with the eggs of sparrows. People who have seen sparrow eggs should know why the spots on the face are called freckles.
To be precise, freckles are commonly known as “freckles”, which are called freckles because they are like sesame seeds scattered on the face, like the color of a sparrow’s egg. Freckles usually occur on the face, especially on the nose and cheeks, but also on the back of the hands, neck and shoulders. The number of freckles is variable, ranging from a few sparse spots to hundreds of dense clusters, isolated and not fused. Sunlight can stimulate or aggravate them, generally light in winter and heavy in summer. Besides, the color of freckles and the number of spots are related to the degree of heredity, the intensity of light, age, geography, race, occupation and working environment, and even to the mood and sleep. However, among these relationships, the main one is closely related to the genetic predisposition of freckles. Generally speaking, the pigment spots of freckles are dotted or round or oval, or in various irregular forms; they are distributed on the face, especially around the nose and cheeks, and their size is as big as a needle point to a grain of rice, with a diameter of 2mm or less.
The size of the lesions is as large as a pinpoint to a grain of rice, with a diameter of 2 mm or less, ranging from light brown to dark brown; the number of distribution is a few dozens or hundreds, most of them are densely distributed, but they do not fuse with each other and are scattered around the face in isolation. Most of them are symmetrical.