Vitiligo - Symptoms & causes - Mayo Clinic
WEBFeb 1, 2024 · Vitiligo occurs when pigment-producing cells (melanocytes) die or stop producing melanin — the pigment that gives your skin, hair and eyes color. The involved patches of skin become lighter or white.
Vitiligo: Types, Symptoms, Causes, Treatment & Recovery
WEBWhat is vitiligo? Vitiligo (pronounced “vit-il-EYE-go”) is a skin condition that causes your skin to lose its color or pigment. This causes your skin to appear lighter than your natural skin tone or turn white.
Vitiligo Symptoms, Treatment & Causes | NIAMS
WEBMar 2, 2021 · Vitiligo is a chronic (long-lasting) autoimmune disorder that causes patches of skin to lose pigment or color. This happens when melanocytes – skin cells that make pigment – are attacked and destroyed, causing the skin to turn a milky-white color.
Vitiligo: Causes, Types, and Treatment - DermNet
WEBJun 4, 2015 · Vitiligo is an acquired, chronic, depigmenting disorder of the skin, in which pigment -producing cells (melanocytes) that determine the colour of skin, hair, and eyes are progressively lost. It appears as milky-white patches of skin (leukoderma) and can be cosmetically very disabling, particularly in people with dark skin.
Vitiligo - Diagnosis & treatment - Mayo Clinic
WEBNov 10, 2022 · Learn more about this condition in which your skin loses pigment cells, resulting in very light or white patches on parts of the body.
Vitiligo: Signs and symptoms - American Academy of Dermatology
WEBWhen vitiligo is actively destroying cells that give a person’s skin its color, the patches tend to be pink or tricolor (causing a zone of tan skin between a person’s natural skin color and the white vitiligo). Once vitiligo is no longer active, the …
Vitiligo: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Steps to Take
WEBMar 2, 2021 · Depigmentation, or removing color from dark areas of the skin so they match the white patches. Doctors usually recommend this treatment for people who have vitiligo on more than half of their bodies. Depigmentation tends to be permanent and can take more than a year to complete.
Vitiligo: What is it, symptoms, treatment, causes, and more
WEBOct 1, 2023 · Vitiligo is a long-term skin condition that causes white patches of depigmentation on certain areas of skin. Find out about the causes and treatments.
Vitiligo > Fact Sheets - Yale Medicine
WEBVitiligo is a disease that causes patches of skin to lose their color, resulting in white spots. In some instances, most (or all) of the skin becomes white. Skin, hair and eye coloring comes from a pigment called melanin.
Vitiligo - NHS
WEBVitiligo is a long-term condition where pale white patches develop on the skin. It's caused by the lack of melanin, which is the pigment in skin. Vitiligo can affect any area of skin, but it commonly happens on the face, neck and hands, and in skin creases.
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