Will Vitiligo be Contagious?

Many people have psychological resistance to vitiligo and think contact with vitiligo people may cause infection of vitiligo. So, will vitiligo be contagious? This passage will give you a detailed explanation.

The first thing you can tell for sure is that vitiligo is not contagious.

What is the Contagious disease then? A contagious disease can be transmitted from one person or other species to another person or species through various means. Each infectious disease is caused by its specific pathogen, which can be microorganisms or parasites, including viruses, rickettsia, bacteria, spirochetes, protozoa, etc. Infectiousness is the main difference between infectious diseases and other classes of diseases. Infectious diseases imply that the pathogen can be transmitted to others through various routes. The primary condition that constitutes an infection is the pathogen. Vitiligo is a depigmentation change due to partial skin melanin metabolism disorder, it does not have pathogens, and there is no infectious source, therefore, vitiligo is not infected.

If it is contagious, then including the family members who live with vitiligo patients as well as the physicians who see them will not be spared. Therefore, vitiligo is not a contagious disease, and the cause of its pathogenic infection is not related to the pathogens, even if the family has a blood relationship of several members successively suffer from vitiligo, but only to indicate that vitiligo has a certain genetic factor, but never is contagious.

Although vitiligo is not contagious, it is difficult to heal and recover, which also seriously affects the quality of life of a patient. Still, we do not pay enough attention to the prevention and control of vitiligo and lack some common sense of this disease.