Is vitiligo contagious?

Vitiligo: We know that birth, aging, sickness and death are a life process that each of us must go through. However, some people still show great panic when facing diseases, especially diseases like vitiligo. So is vitiligo contagious? Generally speaking, vitiligo patients usually only have white spots on the surface of the skin in the early stages. People have a misunderstanding that skin diseases are contagious.

Vitiligo is actually not contagious. Although this skin disease is very harmful to the skin, it is not contagious. At present, people in some less developed areas often avoid vitiligo patients, making them feel like a plague, thus causing inferiority and shyness.

Therefore, there is no need for people to be afraid of vitiligo. Patients should maintain an optimistic and positive attitude and accept early treatment. As the patient's family members, we should be more concerned and take good care of the patient. Don't isolate the patient just because it is an infectious disease, which will have a great impact on the patient. Some patients' family members will also adopt an evasive attitude towards the patients, which seriously hurts the patients' emotions and self-esteem. Vitiligo is just a very obvious external white spot on the skin. It is mainly caused by the disorder of local melanin metabolism, which causes depigmentation changes of the skin.

Apart from hypopigmentation, there are no other abnormal changes in this disease, and no viruses or bacteria have been found, so vitiligo is not contagious. The reason why people mistake vitiligo for an infectious disease is that they do not have an objective and correct understanding of vitiligo.

Some people even confuse vitiligo with leprosy, probably because some infectious diseases such as leprosy can also cause white spots on the skin similar to vitiligo, which is an illusion. Because the skin depigmentation changes caused by these infectious diseases are different from vitiligo, leprosy patients, in addition to depigmented spots, also have decreased or disappeared superficial sensations, abnormal sweating and hair loss. Therefore, vitiligo and leprosy are completely unrelated.

In any case, being sick is not a terrible thing. Technology is so advanced nowadays, what disease can't be cured? Of course, as to the question of whether vitiligo is contagious to humans, we still need to have a deeper understanding of it. The above article has given a relatively detailed introduction to whether vitiligo is contagious. After reading it, you will have a deeper understanding of the disease of vitiligo.