What are the complications caused by vitiligo

In today's context where appearance is important, everyone still attaches great importance to their own image, because no one wants to accept other people's strange looks. Vitiligo is such an uncomfortable disease. Although this skin disease is neither painful nor itchy, it brings a lot of trouble to patients. The white spots on the body or face always attract strange looks from others. In fact, vitiligo is not incurable. As long as it is discovered early and the rash is confirmed in time, medication is taken on time under the advice of a professional doctor, and attention is paid to care in daily life, there is hope of cure. At the very least, the progression of the disease can be controlled. You should know that further progression of vitiligo will cause other complications. Let's learn about this below.

Patients with vitiligo should also receive timely treatment to prevent the spread of vitiligo and more serious cases from causing complications of vitiligo. This is something that everyone with vitiligo should pay attention to.

1. Diabetes

The type of diabetes complicated by vitiligo is mainly insulin-dependent diabetes, and the positive rate of islet cell antibodies in vitiligo patients is also higher than that in the general population. Diabetic patients with vitiligo often have susceptibility to autoimmune diseases or have a familial clustering of the disease.

2. Thyroid Disease

These thyroid diseases are mainly autoimmune thyroid diseases, including diffuse goiter with hyperthyroidism, chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis and primary idiopathic hypothyroidism. Among patients with vitiligo, the chance of vitiligo co-occurring with hyperthyroidism is still very high, accounting for about 20% of the total number of patients.

3. Psoriasis

It is not uncommon for psoriasis and vitiligo to occur simultaneously in the same patient. Some studies have found that psoriasis patients with vitiligo are more likely to have concomitant autoimmune diseases. The comorbidity of the two is closely related to the existence of autoimmune disorders and certain genetic factors in both diseases. In general, as a difficult-to-cure skin disease, vitiligo can cause a variety of complications and is the trigger of these diseases. We should have enough awareness about vitiligo.

Tumors

Malignant melanoma is associated with vitiligo, and there are many clinical reports. The evidence shows that vitiligo-like white spots may appear in malignant melanoma, that individuals with malignant melanoma accompanied by vitiligo-like white spots have a better prognosis, and that immunizing animals with malignant melanoma tumor cells can induce vitiligo. In addition, there are reports of vitiligo complicated by squamous cell carcinoma, basal cell carcinoma and gastric cancer.