What is the main cause of vitiligo?

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. This causes white patches to develop on your skin or hair.

How can you tell if you have vitiligo?

5 common signs of vitiligo

1. Loss of skin color in patches, usually seen first on your face, hands, arms, legs, and feet.
2. Premature whitening of your body hair, including facial hair, eyelashes, and eyebrows.
3. Loss of color of the tissues inside your nose.
4. Changes in or loss of color in your eyes.
5. Thyroid problems.

Is vitiligo a fungus?

Tinea versicolor caused by a fungal infection that results in small, discolored patches of skin. Vitiligo is an autoimmune skin disease that progressively destroys the skin’s pigment-producing cells and results in areas of white skin devoid of melanin pigment.

What are the chances of me getting vitiligo?

Autoimmune disorder: The affected person’s immune system may develop antibodies that destroy melanocytes.

Genetic factors: Certain factors that may increase the chance of getting vitiligo can be inherited.

Neurogenic factors: A substance that is toxic to melanocytes may be released at nerve endings in the skin.

What does really work for vitiligo?

This therapy may be an option if your vitiligo is widespread and other treatments haven’t worked. A depigmenting agent is applied to unaffected areas of skin. This gradually lightens it so that it blends with the discolored areas. The therapy is done once or twice a day for nine months or longer.

What is vitiligo and why do people develop it?

Vitiligo is a chronic (long-lasting) disorder that causes areas of skin to lose color.

No one knows the exact cause of vitiligo. It may be an autoimmune disease in which the body’s immune system attacks and destroys the skin cells that make color.

There is no cure for vitiligo.

Living with vitiligo can be hard.

How to identify vitiligo and what are the causes?

The main cause of this skin disorder is the death of melanin cells i.e. cells that are the foundation of skin pigment. Initially, vitiligo can appear as a patch of white skin that is light in color than the rest. This patch will dramatically become completely white as well as skin pigment starts to fade.