Vitiligo is a refractory skin disease, and vitiligo should be treated in time. When vitiligo is found on the skin, attention should be paid to it. Some patients will adopt a mentality of “ignoring, don’t care, and talk about it later” when they find vitiligo on their child’s skin. Unreachable. Vitiligo needs to be “diagnosed and treated early”, so how do you find out if you have vitiligo on your body?
1. Touch: to see if the vitiligo has dandruff, you can also touch it with your hands, if the dandruff does not fall off, it may be vitiligo;
2. Pat: rub or tap the white spot with normal skin. The white spot turns red like normal skin. It may be vitiligo. If it doesn’t turn red, it may be anemia mole;< /p>
3. Sensation: Whether the white spots on the skin are painful and itchy, no or slight itching may be vitiligo, and it may be in the spreading stage;
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4. Look: the boundary between the leukoplakia on the skin and the normal skin is blurred, or the leukoplakia has obviously become larger, increased, and more White phenomenon, the possibility of vitiligo is very high.
These are the self-assessment methods for vitiligo, and I will share them with you, but at the same time, it is also reminded that if you suspect vitiligo symptoms, you need to go to the hospital for further examination. Do not start treatment blindly, there will be misdiagnosis.
Wood’s lamp examination, the easiest way to identify vitiligo
If you find that you have vitiligo, it is not necessarily a case of vitiligo. There are also cases of misdiagnosis based on naked eye observation. We will be able to draw a preliminary conclusion through visual observation combined with experience, which requires Wood’s lamp examination to confirm the diagnosis.
Wood lamp uses the principle of melanin to absorb full-wave ultraviolet rays, obtains 320-400nm long-wave ultraviolet rays through a filter, and then irradiates the affected area with long-wave ultraviolet rays, it is very easy to get the melanin changes. In addition, skin CT detection can accurately see the distribution and actual situation of subcutaneous melanin.