These misconceptions about the disease vitiligo

The concept vitiligo by "eating the sun"; people become ill, poor hygiene; versicolor not spread, can go away ... are not accurate.

Versicolor is a common disease with a common finding that white spots or brown skin on the face, back or chest. The risk of tinea versicolor growing in summer weather. However, many people still have the wrong judgments about the type of skin diseases:

Versicolor is caused by "sunburn"

Many people think that the dark or mottled skin is so pale skinned, skin, "sunburn" under the influence of sunlight. But in reality, vitiligo skin disease caused by a fungus fungus dry scientific name is Pityrosporum ovale cause. This fungus prevents the absorption of ultraviolet rays in sunlight to fungal skin exposed to white light, whereas skin fungal infections are covered clothes will be dark.

Versicolor due to Pityrosporum ovale cause dark skin patches or faded.

Those newly poor hygiene vitiligo

In addition to physical hygiene, environment for tinea versicolor fungal development depends on many factors, such as working in hot and humid environment, practicing sports sweat more, hormonal changes at puberty then ... Therefore, manual labor, sports athletes, young teens are often at risk of suffering from this skin fungus.

Workers in hot and humid environment, people play sports, puberty is the very susceptible to vitiligo.

Versicolor not spread

Vitiligo is easy to spread. At first, vitiligo spots may appear in a small area, the latter can spread a large area such as a torso, back, chest, face. Not only that, vitiligo can spread to others through sharing of personal items, bedding lie ... Many people think that vitiligo only disfiguring individuals should not treat patients early and often for vitiligo spreads, becomes hard and can be a source of transmission to others.

Versicolor should go away

Many adolescents with vitiligo subjective that vitiligo spots will go away when the last stage of puberty. Vitiligo spots will not disappear if not treated early.

According specialist Nguyen Thi Bich Lien 2 (HCMC Dermatology Hospital) said, for vitiligo spots in a small area, a person may use creams containing ketoconazole, terbinafine, miconazole ... to treatment. In the case of vitiligo spots were spread over large areas and in places difficult to apply medication such as back, neck, back arm ... a person may use special shampoos containing ketoconazole 2% value for washing and bathing in 5 consecutive days to kill the fungus root. During treatment, absolutely should not use medicines that contain corticosteroids for fungal skin prone to side effects such as skin atrophy, stretch and create opportunities for fungal development more difficult to diagnose and after this treatment.

Vitiligo will not recur

Vitiligo is easy to relapse, the cause may be due to insufficient treatment dose, do not rub the medicine on the fungal infection but not discolored or no attention excluded as source of infection yeast infection clothes before.
To fungi have no chance to survive and develop, the patient should follow the route of treatment, do not stop your medicine even if signs of disease remission. Before each summer, the patient can shower with shampoo or lotion containing ketoconazole 2% once daily for 3 days in order to prevent relapse.