EVER WONDER?: Is there any significance to a child having a cafe au lait mark?
Cafe au lait (French, for “coffee with milk”) spots are irregularly shaped benign pigmented skin lesions that have a color slightly darker than the natural pigment. They’re hereditary, but technically not called birthmarks, since they don’t usually appear until a child is a few months old. In light-skinned people, their color is tan just like its name suggests; in dark-skinned people, the mark is slightly darker than the rest of their skin. These skin pigmentations are actually pretty common, seen in up to 20 percent of people. In the vast …
