Skin Pigment Condition. This is a skin condition that leads to a decrease in pigment in certain patches of skin all over the body. It is important to understand the difference between hypopigmentation and depigmentation.
Skin pigmentation is the color of your skin due to a certain amount of melanin a natural pigment that gives your skin hair and eyes their unique color. Vitiligo is a disease in which the pigment cells of the skin melanocytes are destroyed in certain areas. Your skin could become darker or lighter due to changes in your bodys production of melanin.
Symptoms and signs of vitiligo include loss of skin color in the form of depigmented or white patches of skin in any location on the body.
Vitiligo facts medically edited by Melissa Conrad Stöppler MD. Vitiligo is a condition in which white patches develop on the skin. Melanocytes are the skin cells that produce melanin and give the skin its natural color via Cleveland Clinic. Without these cells people with vitiligo often have white patches.
