How to tell if the white spots on your body are vitiligo

To determine whether the white spots on your body are vitiligo, you can observe your own symptoms, observe the shape of the white spots, and conduct relevant examinations.

1. Observe your own symptoms

1. Observe your own symptoms: If you notice that you have irregularly shaped white patches on your skin with clear edges and no changes in a short period of time, you may have vitiligo. However, this is not a specific manifestation and may be caused by other causes, such as tinea versicolor.

2. Observe the morphology of vitiligo

2. Observe the morphology of vitiligo: if it is a vitiligo caused by vitiligo, it usually appears as a round or oval pale white loss patch with clear boundaries and obvious pigmentation darkening around it. Tinea versicolor is a chronic skin disease caused by Malassezia infection, which is mainly manifested as light white patches of different sizes, whose boundaries are unclear, and can be accompanied by mild scales.

3. Conduct relevant inspections

3. Perform relevant examinations: In order to confirm the diagnosis, it is recommended that the patient can go to the hospital to confirm by means of Wood lamp examination, under the Wood lamp, the skin lesion area of vitiligo patients will appear bright white fluorescence, while tinea versicolor will not appear this condition.

In addition, it can also be judged according to the etiology, location of the disease, etc. If diagnosedvitiligoAfter that, you can use mometasone furoate cream, halomethasone cream and other drugs under the guidance of a doctor. In daily life, we should pay attention to sun protection measures and avoid ultraviolet radiation to avoid aggravating the condition.