How to Distinguish Sweat Spot from Vitiligo?

How to Distinguish Sweat Spot from Vitiligo?

Many people take vitiligo for sweat spot mistakenly, and ignore the treatment for vitiligo. Conversely, some people mistake Sweat spot for vitiligo and get nervous. So what are the distinctions between Vitiligo and Sweat spot?

Sweat spot, known as Tinea Versicolor, is a kind of superficial mycosis with unclear edge caused by Malasseiza pityropitum, which is round, oval and there are a few scales on it. It mainly occurs at the part of more developed sebaceous gland, such as neck, chest, back and upper limb.

Vitiligo is a more common disease of acquired depigmentation. The skin depigmetation of patients is usually pieces of white. Typically, the white patches are most the sizes of fingernail and coin with the shapes of round, oval or large irregular pieces. And pigmentation may be present at the edge of white patches. The edge of white patches is blurred and with no scales on it if it is in the evolution period of vitiligo condition. White patches mainly occur at the parts of face, neck, girdle, extremities, fingers, toes, etc

It is not definitely sweat spot when white patches occur on body. There are many kinds of white patches, the possible occurrence of vitiligo should be noticed. Patients must learn how to distinguish white patches from sweat spot, they are different. Patients have to go for treatment early once there are white patches, in case of that white patches spread to the whole body to make treatments more complicated.