What is the difference between vitiligo and sweat spots?

Sweat spots and white spots are a kind of disease, but there is a big difference between the two, you can't blindly choose, otherwise the condition will become more and more serious, as long as you carefully distinguish it, you can see the difference between the two.

What is the difference between sweat spots and white spots?

1. The concept is different.

Sweat spots are caused by Malassezia infection, which generally occurs in young men, because sweating is more and is not dried in time, so as to provide a good living environment for bacterial growth. Leukoplakia is divided into congenital and acquired, and the innate properties are caused by various factors during the development of the embryo, and the leukoplakia will not fade or expand significantly after stabilization. Acquired nature is caused by external factors, such as environment, mood and diet.

2. The location of the disease is different.

Sweat spots mainly occur in areas where seborrhea is common, such as the neck, abdomen, chest, upper arms and back, and may also affect the face. White patches usually occur in areas that are exposed to sunlight and are prone to friction and damage, and appear when they are injured or come into contact with chemicals.

3. The clinical symptoms are different.

Sweat spots will appear as round punctate macules at first, then slowly increase to the size of a fingernail, with clear borders, and the adjacent areas will slowly merge into irregular shapes, and new macules will appear around them. A small number of gray or brown scales will appear on the surface,** without any inflammation, and occasionally a slight itching sensation will occur. Leukoplakia is a depigmented patch, generally light white or milky white, with a smooth surface without a rash, and the boundary is clear, and the vitiligo generally presents a symmetrical distribution without conscious symptoms and no itching.

4. The way is different.

Patients with sweat spots can choose creams or topical lotions**, or they can choose antifungal drugs under the guidance of doctors, and oral drugs can be selected for people with reverse or large areas**. Patients with vitiligo need vitamins, ketone-containing medications, hormonal drugs, and immunomodulators. Patients with stable vitiligo who have not progressed can be treated with autologous epidermal grafting.

People with large lesions should opt for depigmentation**.

In fact, vitiligo and sweat spots can be seen with the naked eye in morphology, vitiligo, is a general term for some diseases with ** vitiligo as the main symptom in medicine. Vitiligo refers to the appearance of lighter than normal skin patches on the mucous membranes, mainly due to hypopigmentation or depigmentation. Vitiligo can be congenital or acquired.

Sweat spots, also known as tinea versicolor, are a superficial fungal disease. **The lesions are predominantly pale white, with round or oval spots with indistinct edges and many fine scales on the surface.

1. Generally these two diseases, it is still not much of a shock to our body in terms of comfort, but he is asking me what I want to have a certain change, we must also consider going to the hospital for **, and it can also achieve good results.

2. Sweat spots are mostly found in the developed parts of the sebaceous glands, such as the neck, upper chest, back and upper limbs. The ** depigmentation of vitiligo patients is white patches, and there can be pigmentation at the edges, so we are called to ** department to use some conventional ** programs are effective.

3. The disease of vitiligo may develop into psoriasis or psoriasis, which is also possible, so when vitiligo appears, we must not ignore it, and actively go to the **, so as to effectively curb this disease and no longer develop.

White spots and sweat spots, they have a certain difference in morphology, but in terms of the most advanced pathway, it is generally carried out by the same means, and we have to look at the disease correctly.