Diskoloratsiya skin, because of which there are white or pale pink spots - a very common problem. Typically, white spots on the skin are not accompanied by pain, but they can cause itching, constant discomfort, and psychological problems related to human discontent own appearance.
White spots on the skin of the trunk and limbs may be a sign of a fairly common disease - vitiligo. In this disorder white spots occur due to the fact that the skin loses melanin - a pigment that is normally produced by cells called melanocytes. Diskoloratsiya caused by damage to melanocytes, and why this happens is still not known exactly. According to one of the most common and plausible theories of vitiligo - an autoimmune disorder, and the melanocytes are destroyed by the immune system of the patient. Furthermore, it is known that the susceptibility to the development of vitiligo is due to genetic factors.
In average, vitiligo some extent affected to 2% of the world population, even in different countries, the proportion of patients with this diagnosis may be different. The first signs of the disease usually appear early, between the first and third decades of life. White spots on the skin of a child is often a symptom of vitiligo; Other disorders associated with hypopigmentation of the skin, usually develop in older age.
The treatment of white spots on the skin in vitiligo takes a long time and does not always produce the expected result. Unfortunately, there are no drugs or operations that could be guaranteed to return the patient's skin vitiligo its normal color. Small white spots can be more or less effectively masked by a foundation, powders and concealers. In addition, the patient may be given a corticosteroid ointment that can be partially or fully restore skin pigmentation - especially if you start to use them at the earliest stages of the disease. In the treatment of vitiligo patients children usually applied ointment less concentrated than those for adult patients are assigned. The first results are visible not earlier than three months after the start of use of ointments.