Age-related leukoplakia is a degenerative phenomenon of old age, mainly due to a decrease in the number of melanocytes in the skin. The disease tends to start after the age of 45 and is more common in the elderly. There is no significant difference between male and female onset. It is a round, slightly sunken white spot of rice to bean size, scattered, not fused, mostly on the chest and back, extremities, especially the thighs are more common, not on the face. No conscious symptoms, increasing with age, often accompanied by age-related changes such as age-related freckle-like nevus and gray hair.
Diagnostic points 1. It develops in middle and old age and increases gradually with age.
2.White rash on the trunk and non-exposed parts of the extremities, 2-5mm in size, round, with clear boundaries and slightly depressed surface.
Treatment points Aging white spots are not harmful to health and can be treated without treatment.
Some skin spots do not need to be treated. Older people often have some spots of different sizes on their skin. These spots are benign changes of the skin in old age, which are not harmful to the health of the body and will not become cancerous, and do not need treatment.
These round white spots on the skin are as big as rice grains or green beans, with clear edges, and can be slightly depressed, without any discomfort. Some people mistake this as “vitiligo”, but in fact it is called “senile leukoplakia” or “white-like pigment reduction”.
2, senile hemangioma Red nevus is medically known as “senile hemangioma”, which is a small red bump on the skin with congested red spots or bright red packets from the size of a needle tip to a green bean, not itchy or painful, often found unintentionally and will not disappear on its own.
3, elderly purpura purpura occurs in the back of the hand, forehead, calves, etc., as purple red bruises or bruises of different sizes, clear borders, no uncomfortable feeling, after a period of time can disappear on their own. This “senile purpura” appears due to the increased fragility of small dermal blood vessels in the elderly, resulting in subcutaneous bleeding when the skin of the elderly is slightly bumped.
The yellow bumps often occur on the forehead or cheeks of the elderly, as scattered, raised yellowish or yellow round nodules, there may be one or more, it is formed by the normal sebaceous glands in the skin of the elderly increased, so also known as “sebaceous adenoma”.