Vitiligo is a chronic skin disorder in which the melanocytes lose their ability to produce pigment which results in white patches on the skin.

About one to two percent of the world suffers from Vitiligo irrespective of age, sex, and race but most of the people develop this disease before the age of forty.

What is Vitiligo   

The skin disease Vitiligo has set its feet across the globe. Even in the world power America, it is witnessed quite often among the people. This disease generates the white and pale patches on the skin. These spots emerge due to the lack of pigment cells in the body.

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Vitiligo is a chronic disease which causes depigmentation of skin in the form of white patches. Vitiligo occurs when melanocytes that are responsible for skin pigmentation, die or unable to perform their function. Segmented vitiligo is a common form of vitiligo. Vitiligo has some confusion with other diseases like nevus depigmentosus, white scars and hypopigmentation, pityriases Alba, idiopathic guttate hypomelanosis and pigmentation.


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In this disease melaninpigment, which is responsible for color of skin, eyes, and hair isabsent. It is a congenital disorder and most common in those societieswhere inter-marriages are arranged between close blood relatives. Although Albinos lead normal happy life but lack of melanin pigmentincreases the risk of skin cancer and other problems.he main difference b/w human albinism and vitiligo is that albinism is a biochemical disorder while vitiligo is an auto-Immune disorder.

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Michael Jackson has vitiligo and that is the truth, even now you will see brown spots on various parts of Michael’s body, at his arms, hands, nose, lips etc; these patches are visible in sometime and sometimes these aren’t, because of makeup or spontaneous Depigmentation.Jackson’s Dr. asked that,” have you yet see or hear about any drastic change in skin color by just applying bleach creams? This is impossible because, hydroquinone is not permanent and it is hard to treat monobenzylether of hydroquinone, only a dermatologist can prescribed n such creams”.

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Now it comes into view as if his eldest son Prince Michael, who is just 12-years-old, has inherited the disease of vitiligo, from his father as he has visible discoloring or white dots on his right hand as in most of the cases of vitiligo.

Richard Wittal foremost dermatologist of Sydney, Australia said that vitiligo has a genetic propensity. 10% of all those who suffer from vitiligo has a family history of this disease.

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Vitiligo is a chronic skin disorder in which the melanocytes lose their ability to produce pigment which results in white patches on the skin. In Albinism color of skin, eyes, and hair isabsent. It is a congenital disorder and most common in those societieswhere inter-marriages are arranged between close blood relatives. Although Albinos lead normal happy life but lack of melanin pigmentincreases the risk of skin cancer and other problems.

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