Will Vitiligo Patients only have Depigmentation on the Skin?

The answer is no, not only the skin lesion has depigmented, the mucous membrane, hair, and even the body organs of some vitiligo patients could occur some corresponding pathological changes.

In order to treat vitiligo as soon as possible, we must first understand the relevant symptoms of vitiligo, and get early treatment and early prevention. According to many years of clinical experience, we concluded that one of the main features of vitiligo is the appearance of several or more white patches on the skin, but in addition to these obvious symptoms, vitiligo patients will also appear the following nonskin performance:

The first is that it is common to see patients with the loss of pigmentation on the mucous membranes, commonly in the body cavity openings, such as lips, nipples, areolas, and genitals.

Secondly, vitiligo patients are often accompanied by hair whitening, hair whitening has two broad manifestations: (1) The skin underneath the white hair is also. (2) Only the hair become white and the skin underneath is in normal skin color. The hair loss of pigmentation most often happens on the scalp followed by eyebrows, pubic hair, and axillary hair. In recent years, we found that eyelashes and body hair can also change white.

Thirdly, in addition to skin white lesions, the eyes and ears of vitiligo patients can also occur corresponding lesions. The investigation found that a few vitiligo patients can have retinal choroidal degeneration or depigmentation, uneven pigmentation distribution, optic disc atrophy or retinal artery narrowing and needle-like formation, night blindness, and other changes. Some people have measured the hearing and auditory response of vitiligo patients, and found that 13% to 16% of patients showed an abnormal sensory neurological hearing loss, with mild to moderate hearing loss.