What causes vitiligo?

Nowadays, most people have encountered vitiligo in their daily lives. This is a disease called vitiligo, but before the diagnosis, you need to go to the hospital to check whether you have vitiligo. Because some vitiligo may be hidden, so after understanding it, everyone should know the cause of vitiligo, which is related to their own immunity.

What are the consequences of vitiligo?

1. Social interaction: Vitiligo seriously affects a person’s appearance. There are many people in society who discriminate against patients, which causes a blow to the self-esteem of many patients and leads to a series of mental illnesses.

2. Spread: Many patients do not pay attention to treatment after suffering from vitiligo, which makes the condition worse. In severe cases, the white spots may spread throughout the body. In the early stages of vitiligo, there are only one or two patches. If treated during this period, vitiligo will recover quickly.

After a long time, more white spots will grow, and then the previous white spots will merge with the new white spots, eventually resulting in vitiligo white spots all over the body. This can seriously affect the patient's appearance.

3. Vitiligo has a serious impact on patients' normal study, employment, marriage, family, social life, etc.

4. This disease can induce a variety of diseases, such as pernicious anemia, alopecia areata, psoriasis, malignant tumors, bronchial asthma, rheumatoid arthritis and cataracts, as well as complications such as hyperthyroidism.