Vitiligo: Dermatological condition

Vitiligo is a dermatological condition that perverted the skin, causing the appearance of irregular in our body, white spots since the melanocytes, the cells that are responsible for skin pigmentation cease to produce melanin, which is handling the discoloration of the skin.

The Vitiligo can affect people of either sex or race and the generality of cases occur in persons between 12 and 35. The body zones that are most affected are hands and feet, elbows and the face. You must be the Vitiligo is not a contagious disease or by contact with an affected person.


Causes of the Vitiligo:

Not could have set exactly the cause that causes this dermatological condition, but there are three scenarios today: the neurogenic, the immunological and call the melanocito autointoxication. The neurogenic hypothesis behind the nervous system produces a substance that destroys the cells responsible for skin, i.e. the melanocytes pigmentation.


Immune hypothesis:

Holds the body begins to produce antibodies that destroy pigment cells at any time, these are being progressively. This is one of the assumptions which is the most widely accepted among scholars.

The melanocito autointoxication hypothesis:

Argues that the cells responsible for the coloration of the skin (melanocytes) would be annihilated by harmful substances which are formed during metabolic melanin synthesis.

On physical examination may be confirmed diagnosis of the Vitiligo, rarely specialist determines another type of examination to determine the lack of melanocytes causing the skin as a blood test or biopsy skin depigmentation.

So far there is no effective treatment to combat the Vitiligo, but grafts of skin in the affected areas and the use of make-up are being to cover up these spots on the skin. He is recommended for people with Vitiligo use a good sunscreen, since their skin is more sensitive to sunlight.





 

   

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