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This is vitiligo
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by chris jean.
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Alright. Vitiligo is also known as leuco derma.
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It is a long term skin disease or condition that
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causes an area of your body to lose its pigmentation.
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It results in the area of the skin to appear as
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a white pale tone instead of your regular skin complexion.
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Vitiligo affects approximately 1.5% of the world's population,
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Which is around 105 to 120 million people roughly.
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Vitiligo differs from albino ism or albinism,
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cancer or leprosy.
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It differs because it isn't an infection,
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an infectious disease
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like those three,
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it is non life threatening
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and it's it's hereditary.
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However, the case vitiligo can also be caused by either stress
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trauma or severe sunburn,
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symptoms of vitiligo consists of patchy loss of skin
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usually starts by showing in the hands, face or genital regions,
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just to name a few areas.
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It also involves premature whitening and the beard, scalp and eyes,
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which also includes the eyelashes and eyebrows,
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and it also includes the loss of color in the tissue that aligns around your mouth.
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There are two types of vitiligo,
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the first one is the most common type, which is called Knox and mental vitiligo,
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or also known as bi lateral or generalized vitiligo,
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As said before. It is the most
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is the most common type of vitiligo,
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which affects around nine and 10 people who have the condition.
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The symptoms often appear on both sides of the body as symmetrical
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white patches as you can see for the two hands on top,
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it appears on both sides of the body, such as asset before
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hands or both knees,
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it often begins on the hands and fingertips, wrists around the eyes or mouth.
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And it often begins with rapid loss of skin color, which then stops for a while.
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The color loss often starts up again which starts a stop and
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start and stop cycle, which usually continues throughout a person's lifetime.
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The color loss often tends to expand, growing,
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growing more noticeable and covering a large amount of the area.
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The second type of vitiligo is segmental vitiligo,
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also known as unilateral or localized vitiligo.
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This one is the least common that people have
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Which people. For people it affects three
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And 10 Children who have vitiligo.
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The white patches only affect one area of your body.
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And it's, as I said before I mentioned, more common in Children,
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it appears on one segment of the body such as a leg, face or arm.
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About half the people lose some form of hair color, such as on the head,
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eyelash or eyebrow.
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It often begins at an early age and it progresses for at least a year and then stops
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vitiligo is caused by the lack of pigment
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known as melanin in the skin.
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Mhm.
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The skin cells are called melanocytes.
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Vitiligo occurs when the immune cells attack and
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destroy the cells that create those melanocytes.
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The stress Melanie sites then activate the innate immune system
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which
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releases D. A. M. P. S. Which starts a danger system,
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the beginning of information begins while it leads
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up to activating the adaptive immune system.
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And because of all those factors,
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there's not enough work in melanocytes to produce enough melanin in the skin.
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There are many treatments for vitiligo.
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However, the disease as mentioned prior is lifelong but also non life threatening.
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There are many ways to suppress it but you cannot stop it.
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There are medications and light based therapies that
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are available to help restore skin colors.
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There are medications that assist with the immune system
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and also other medications to reduce inflammation.
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There are surgeries which involves skin grafting,
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which is the image shown right here.
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Skin grafting is when a patch of skin is removed by surgery from one
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area of the body and is transplanted attached to another part of the body.
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However, with all these treatments, there are also risks
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which are skin thinning or the appearance of streaks.
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For surgeries includes infections,
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scarring or failure of the area to get re colored.
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Here we have three celebrities who have little lego or in some cases had
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we have on the top, we have Winnie Harlow
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on the side to the left,
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we have Michael Jackson and on the bottom we have rasheed Wallace.
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Now, I know this isn't really state in any form of fact, but
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this
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slide pretty much shows that even with
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Vitiligo, you're still capable
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of living
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a normal life like anybody else.
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For example, Winnie Harlow is one of the top models in America
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has no shame or fear of showing off her body to anybody
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even with her skin
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condition,
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she still does her thing.
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We have Michael Jackson, who we all know is the king of pop.
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He has one of the weirder cases of vitiligo, which in some cases his whole body
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transform into a wider complexion. And then there are days where he
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is dark skinned
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and on the bottom we have Detroit pistons, legend,
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rasheed Wallace who has confirmed that he also has Vitiligo,
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but he still managed to go out and become
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N. B. A. Champion
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with the disease. So it's manageable to do normal daily things and
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do great things in life, even with skin conditions like this.
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So this is Vitiligo
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and here are the references
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I'm gonna let this time go out to seven minutes because