How to Identify the Early Stage of Vitiligo?

Vitiligo initially manifests itself as white patches without other obvious symptoms, and it is often difficult to make a timely diagnosis, so it is also easy to be overlooked. It is necessary to know the early symptoms of vitiligo, which can help you determine whether you are suffering from vitiligo, early detection would get early treatment. So what are the early symptoms of vitiligo?

1. Vitiligo can occur on any part of the body's skin, especially the head, face, neck, trunk, genitals, and other parts of the most common.

2. Vitiligo presents irregular white patches of varying size, single or multiple, with the white patches gradually expanding in size and increasing in number.

3. Vitiligo likes to occur in areas that are susceptible to sunlight and friction damage

4. The lesions appear as pure white round or irregular desmoplastic spots, generally with smooth surfaces, no scaling or crusting, and normal sensory and secretory functions.

5. The hair in the white patches can be white, normal, or black and white together, the treatment efficacy for white hair patients is relatively poor. After the disappearance of the white patches, the hair can also turn black.

6. The white patches are more sensitive to ultraviolet light than normal skin and become red when exposed to sunlight. The course of the disease is slow, gradually expanding in all directions, fusing with each other or stopping spreading when it reaches a certain level, and remains unchanged for a long time.

The best time to treat vitiligo is the early stage of the disease, the chance of cure is great, and the damage to the body is very small. But many early-stage vitiligo patients did not get timely examination and treatment from the regular hospital, they wait until the white patches has appeared to spread, or they choose some non-professional medical treatment for a period of time and then went to the regular hospital for treatment, which they missed the best period of treatment, which add a lot of difficulties for the treatment of disease. So it is recommended that patients should find vitiligo early, be diagnosed early, treated early, and eventually get recovered early.