Can white Spot Be Vitiligo After Sea Bath.

Some people have white spots on their skin after summer sun exposure or swimming in the sea. They panic and mistake it for vitiligo. Some people even go to the pharmacy to buy medicine to remove white spots...... In fact, this is the white spot after the water bath, and there is no relationship with vitiligo. White spot after sea bath belongs to a kind of solar white spot, occurs in people who swim for a long time in the sea in summer. It mainly occurs in the exposed parts, such as the chest with clear boundaries of hypopigmentation spots, 0.2-2.0 cm in diameter, sometimes it can be fused into pieces, without conscious symptoms, usually it can be self - subsiding to late autumn, no impact on human health.

However, some patients with vitiligo have sun exposure before their first onset, and their white spots will expand or appear new white spots after prolonged exposure in summer, but they should be distinguished from white spots after sea bath to avoid delaying the best treatment time for vitiligo.