What are the causes and dangers of skin vitiligo?

Vitiligo is a common and frequent pigmented skin disease. When the disease occurs, white spots appear on the patient's body, which will seriously affect the patient's friendships and cause tremendous psychological pressure on the patient. Everyone should pay attention to this. So what are the common causes of vitiligo?

Facing the five common causes of vitiligo

1. Lack of trace elements: Trace elements are active substances that participate in the intermediate links of the body's metabolism, such as copper, zinc, selenium, iodine, etc. They are directly involved in the synthesis of melanocytes and also protect melanocytes from damage by heavy metal poisons. Studies have shown that trace element deficiency and imbalance can lead to melanocyte synthesis disorders.

2. Endocrine and immune dysfunction: Certain pathogenic factors (chemical and heavy metal poisons) lead to immune dysfunction and endocrine imbalance, producing anti-melanocyte antibodies, causing melanocyte damage and loss, and causing the disease.

3. Neuropsychiatric factors: The pace of modern life makes some people bear too heavy a psychological burden. Long-term psychological pressure and excessive mental tension can lead to endocrine disorders and immune dysfunction and cause illness. In addition, long-term excessive work pressure, irregular nightlife and bad habits that cause the body to be in a state of excessive fatigue are also one of the reasons.

4. Genetic factors: Clinical observation shows that only a few cases are related to genetics, but it does not affect the treatment of the disease.

5. Trauma: white spots on the skin caused by burns, scalds, knife wounds, mosquito bites, and infections.

What harm does vitiligo do to patients?

Affects patients’ mental health

Many people don’t know much about vitiligo. Most of them stay away from patients with vitiligo and even look at them with a certain degree of discrimination. The patients themselves have low tolerance, which will cause serious psychological problems for them.

Vitiligo may cause other diseases

Vitiligo skin lesions can lead to a variety of diseases such as pernicious anemia, alopecia areata, psoriasis, malignant tumors, bronchial asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, hyperthyroidism and cataracts due to long-term medication.

Severe skin damage

The harm of vitiligo is serious skin damage. The skin is damaged. When the symptoms of vitiligo are discovered in the early stages, you can rub or pat the white spots and the surrounding normal skin with your hands. When the surrounding skin turns red, observe whether the white spots also turn red or whether the white spots are more obvious from the appearance. What are the dangers of vitiligo in adults in life?

Vitiligo affects patients' social life

The sites of vitiligo disease gradually spread and can appear anywhere on the body. Most of the sites of disease are easily exposed to sunlight and friction damage, especially the face, neck, back of hands and trunk. It can also be divided unilaterally along the nerve segment.