What is the reason for pale skin

Many people often find that their skin starts to turn white suddenly, and the white areas are in different parts of the body. For this symptom, you should consider vitiligo, white spot lesions on the vulva or local skin. In the absence of symptoms, it can also be judged as vulvar leukoplakia, albinism, or secondary vulvar leukoplakia. There are many reasons for white skin that require your own judgment.

Vulvar vitiligo: A disease caused by the destruction of melanocytes in the vulvar skin. In addition to the whitening of the vulva, the skin on other parts of the body may also turn white.

1. The skin in the whitened area has normal elasticity, no pathological changes, and will not turn into skin cancer. The patient also has no discomfort symptoms, so no special treatment is required. You can seek treatment from a dermatologist.

2. Vulvar albinism: This disease is a systemic hereditary disease. But it can also occur only in the vulva skin area. This disease is caused by the inability of melanocytes in the basal layer of the epidermis to produce melanin, resulting in skin whitening. Local leukoplakia of the vulva does not require treatment because it has no symptoms and does not cause cancer.

3. Secondary vulvar leukoplakia: Various chronic vulvar diseases, such as diabetic vulvitis, candidal vulvitis, vulvar abrasions, etc., which can cause long-term skin stimulation, can cause excessive keratinization of the vulvar skin, desquamation and turn white. This type of patients often suffer from vulvar itching, which is easily misdiagnosed as vulvar white lesions. But when the primary disease is cured, the white lesions on the vulva will also disappear.