Is Vitiligo a contagious disease ?
Vitiligo usually starts as flat white spots on the hands or around the eyes. The white spots usually do not itch or hurt. These white spots or white patches are commonly circular and occur in the same areas on both sides of the body, thus producing a mirror-image effect. The spots are more common over bony areas. Most people experience a slow progression of the disease with more and larger white patches, while in others, the white patches of Vitiligo disappear by themselves. The question that trouble Vitiligo sufferers as where as their alliance about Vitiligo is that, is Vitiligo Contagious? The only theory almost all the doctors agree upon is that Vitiligo isn’t CONTAGIOUS. So the next time you meet a person with a white patch you shouldn’t think twice while shaking hands with him.
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Vitiligo is not at all contagious, and it certainly does not spread by touch. It is actually an autoimmune disease which is caused due to factors like sun burn, constant contact with chemicals, skin trauma and some times due to genetics
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Eddie Panlilio said
"Vitiligo, or the partial loss of pigment, which is also called as a Michael Jackson Disease by his skin disorder, is not contagious, so our constituents need not fear coming near me or shaking my hands."
