Know Vitiligo

Finalists of America's Next Top Model Cycle 21, Chantelle Brown, Tyra Banks-Young selected as a unique skin. Chantelle skin condition called vitiligo experienced. As a result of vitiligo, the original color of the skin to fade and become younger in the strain of large patches on the skin.

 Hair color, skin, and eye melanin is determined. Easily, in patients with vitiligo, an abnormality in the body's immune system turns against and destroy the melanocytes that produce melanin in the skin. As a consequence, the melanocytes die or stop functioning. Condition vitiligo is not contagious or dangerous, but people with vitiligo can feel inferior.

 

 Another cause of vitiligo is hereditary in the family, triggered by sun exposure, stress, and harmful chemicals. Part of the body can be affected by vitiligo. But, vitiligo usually starts from the areas of the body that are open or frequently exposed to sunlight such as hands, feet, arms, face, and lips, followed by areas of hair, the inside of the mouth, and eyes.

 Here are some

 of the symptoms of vitiligo:

1 color fading.

2. Hair turned prematurely white or gray on the scalp, eyelashes, eyebrows, beard up. This is usually before the age of 35 years. 3 The loss of color in the tissues in the mouth and nose.

4. Fading of color in the inner layer of the eyeball or retina.

5. Emergence splotches around the armpits, navel, genitals, and anus.

Vitiligo can occur in many places in the body and extends symmetrically (generalized vertigo), only on one side or one area of ​​the body that tend to occur at a younger age (segmental vitiligo), and only in a few areas of the body (focal vitiligo).