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Skin Disease Vitiligo Mood
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Vitiligo a  serious skin disease in which white patches observed in skin due to depigmentation. Vitiligo may affect any component of  body, usually the distribution is symmetrical, affecting both sides of the body. However vitiligo appears on  the sites which are remain open or exposed to the sun  for example eyelids, around the mouth, neck, elbows, wrists, knees, ankles and hand.

Skin Structure
 
Our skin has two layers. The outer layer called the epidermis and an inner layer called the dermis. Dermis is the place where skin cells are produced then move up through the epidermis to the skin surface. Skin cells involve in pigmentation process called melanocytes.

Pigmentation and Melanocytes:
 
Pigmentation is the process of coloration in skin and melanocytes are special skin cells used in this process. Melanin a brown black fluid in skin responsible for specific skin color, hair and eyes is produced by the melanocytes. If these cells die or are altered and can not synthesize melanin, the skin becomes lighter or completely white.

Who is Affected by Vitiligo
 
It is true that most of the affected person from vitiligo are better in physical health.
Vitiligo is a common disease and ration of vitiligo suffers are about 2 to 3 persons in each hundred about half of those who develop vitiligo do so before age 20, and 20% of those affected have a family the same pathology.

What are causes of vitiligo

The only thing which is confirmed about vitiligo is that it occurs due to the lack of pigmentation in any part of skin. While no one knows with certainty the cause, there are some theories regarding causes of vitiligo. Here we discus  two famous factor of vitiligo autoimmunity and inheritance. (http://www.antivitiligo.com/vitiligo/)

Auto-Immunity
Auto immunity is most reliable and understood factor regarding the causes of vitiligo.
It mean your own body system’s abnormal actions. It may be:-
  a)An alteration of the immune system that lead to the destruction of melanocytes.
  b)Some time nerve cells produce a harmful substance  that damage skin pigment   
     producing cells. And hence due to the destruction of these cells there in no
     pigmentation on these  part of skin and white spots of vitiligo appears.   

Genetics
As we mentioned above that inheritance is also involve in this skin condition but such cases are not more then the twenty percent of all cases. An study shows that a gene named NLAP 1 is responsible for vitiligo.

How you Handle Vitiligo

Leave any emotional stress regarding your physical appearance. Once vitiligo occurred it is the most beneficial tip to stop further development of this skin condition.
Several treatment options are available  for treatment of vitiligo. But to the uncertain info about the causes we can not say about any treatment options that it is the best one.
However most of the people preferred Psoralens maid remedy means natural treatment options, because these are more economical, and has no side effects.
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