How much Melanin is Left in Different Vitiligo Lesions?

 

The presence of melanin in vitiligo lesions is determined by the color of the affected area of vitiligo.

1. The skin lesions show light white:

It is the smallest damage for those skin with white patches if the color of vitiligo is a little bit lighter than normal skin. This means that the melanocyte function of the white patches in the skin has been damaged ten to twenty percent, and ninety percent or eighty percent of the function still exists.

2. The skin lesions show milky white:

Vitiligo colors like milk, the melanocyte function of this skin white spot has been damaged twenty to thirty percent, there are seventy percent or eighty percent of the function still exists.

3. The lesions show cloudy white:

Vitiligo color like white clouds, indicating that the skin white patches melanocyte function has been damaged seventy to eighty percent, and only twenty to thirty percent of the function exists.

4. The skin lesions show porcelain white:

This is the heaviest skin white spot damage. The color of vitiligo is like ceramic tiles, indicating that the function of melanocytes in this skin has been damaged eighty to ninety percent, only ten or twenty percent can exist, and even the whole melanocytes have denatured, atrophied, or even died.

So for vitiligo skin lesions containing how much melanin, it depends on your vitiligo in what stage, the seriousness of the disease, the degree of lesions of the white spots, and others to make a specific judgment. As long as your vitiligo lesions still have melanocyte function, then the vitiligo is still can recover. Even if the melanocyte function of vitiligo lesions has completely lost, atrophied, or even died, through the transplantation of melanocytes and other surgical methods, you can still achieve the effect of restoring skin color, so vitiligo patients do not need to worry excessively about whether there is melanin in the vitiligo lesions.