Vitiligo is a serious autoimmune disease and one of the most common.
Skin colour is due to the pigment melanin. When melanocytes (the cells that produce it) are destroyed for an unknown reason by our immune system, the disease vitiligo develops. The formation of white patches resembling peeling after sunburn begins. They look like a cosmetic blemish, with strange shapes, sometimes itchy, small and well circumscribed at first as they gradually increase in size.
Statistics show that this disease affects on average 1 in every 100 people, regardless of gender and age. It is believed that genetic factors are also responsible for its occurrence, as well as other autoimmune diseases, especially of the thyroid gland. Free radicals, toxins and stress are also involved.
The vitiligo progressed without any symptoms. The darker the skin, the greater the contrast. In some cases the spots are confined to a particular segment of the skin, but more often they have a more generalized distribution, and in more advanced cases they may cover a considerable part of the skin surface. They are observed, even on the scalp, as a grey or white patch of hair, and sometimes a complete depigmentation of the hair.
There are new effective and safe treatment methods that are individualized, give good results and satisfactory repigmentation is achieved. It should be known that the treatment approach for each is very specific and is dictated by the individual patient's therapeutic response.
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