The love of beauty is common, with the improvement of living standards, people pay more attention to skin problems, when the skin appears white spots, most people will be more nervous, will not be vitiligo, in fact, unnecessary so nervous, because there are a variety of diseases may appear skin white spots. Let’s take a look at the diseases that commonly cause skin white spots are what diseases.
1, white furfuraceous: also known as peach fever, the exact cause is unclear, but malnutrition, wind, sun, excessive cleaning and dry skin may be the triggering factors, the disease occurs in children, the performance of the edge of the ambiguous round or oval hypopigmented spots, the surface has a little furfuraceous scales; lesions occur in the face.
2.Anti-pigmented nevus: appears at birth or soon after birth, and is usually found on the trunk, lower abdomen, and proximal extremities, often distributed along the nerve segments, and appears as a hypopigmented spot with a blurred irregular border and almost no pigmentation halo around it.
3.Anemic nevus: It is a kind of hypopigmented spot caused by congenital abnormalities of blood vessel function, and the sensitivity of the affected area to catecholamines is enhanced. It occurs at birth or during childhood and does not recede throughout life. The white spot is more obvious because the surrounding skin is red but not the white spot is not red. Prevalent in the trunk, especially the chest.
4, pityriasis pilaris: also known as sweat spots, pityriasis pilaris, is caused by Malassezia infection. It is a round dotted light-colored spots with clear edges, fused into irregular large shapes, while there are new rashes around, the surface has a small amount of very easy to peel off the chaff-like scales, the lesions are good to occur in the chest and back.
5, vitiligo: is a kind of acquired pigment loss spot, the disease may be related to genetic factors, autoimmune damage, melanocyte self destruction, neuropsychiatric factors, etc.. The rash is usually without conscious symptoms. It occurs in exposed areas and folds that are easily rubbed and exposed to sunlight, and can occur on any part of the skin.