Vitiligo Hair: Symptoms, Treatment, and Causes - Verywell Health
2023年9月21日 · Vitiligo can cause hair to lose color, but it doesn't cause hair loss. Instead, vitiligo often occurs alongside another inflammatory skin condition called alopecia areata. Roughly 15%–25% of people with vitiligo also have another autoimmune condition.
Vitiligo - Symptoms & causes - Mayo Clinic
2024年2月1日 · Vitiligo occurs when pigment-producing cells (melanocytes) die or stop producing melanin — the pigment that gives your skin, hair and eyes color. The involved patches of skin become lighter or white.
Vitiligo: Signs and symptoms - American Academy of Dermatology
Vitiligo can cause a person’s hair to lose its color. When vitiligo appears on the skin, the hair in that area can turn white, as shown in picture A. Vitiligo can also cause a person’s hair to turn prematurely gray, as shown in picture B.
Vitiligo: Types, Symptoms, Causes, Treatment & Recovery
2022年11月23日 · Patches of hair on your body turn silver, gray or white. Symptoms can be mild and only affect a small area of your body or severe and affect a large area of your skin. Some people with vitiligo experience itchy skin before depigmentation starts.
Vitiligo: Causes, Types, and Treatment - DermNet
Loss of hair colour, (leukotrichia or poliosis), may affect the scalp, eyebrows, eyelashes, and body hair in 10–60% of patients. It does not correlate with disease activity, but could be a predictor of poorer response to therapy due to the destruction of melanocyte reservoir in hair follicles.
Vitiligo Symptoms, Treatment & Causes | NIAMS
2021年3月2日 · Hair, which can turn white in areas where the skin is losing pigment. This can happen on the scalp, eyebrow, eyelash, beard, and body hair. Mucous membranes, such as the inside of your mouth or nose. People with vitiligo can also develop: Low self-esteem or a poor self-image from concerns about appearance, which can affect quality of life.
Types of Vitiligo: What They Look Like - Verywell Health
2022年11月2日 · On the skin, vitiligo can appear as milky-white patches that can show up anywhere but are most common on the hands, feet, arms, or face. Your hair may also turn white over areas of depigmentation on your skin. This applies to the hair on your head, as well as hair in areas like your eyebrows, eyelashes, or even a beard.
Vitiligo: Types, Causes, and Treatment - Verywell Health
2023年5月23日 · Vitiligo, also called piebald skin or acquired leukoderma, is a condition in which pigment, produced by cells called melanocytes, is lost from areas of the skin, causing whitish, smooth patches. Hair that grows in those areas may also be affected, turning white as well.
Vitiligo: Managing and living with this challenging skin condition
2024年9月23日 · Vitiligo can also cause loss of pigment in hair on the scalp, eyebrows, eyelashes, beard, and body hair. Vitiligo can be particularly noticeable on darker skin due to the contrast between affected and unaffected areas.
Vitiligo: What is it, symptoms, treatment, causes, and more
2023年10月1日 · Vitiligo is a skin condition in which patches of skin lose their color. The total area of skin that vitiligo affects varies between individuals. It can also affect the eyes, the inside of the...