What is white spot on the skin and how it is happen?

White spots on the skin is a hypo pigmentation disorder and if the body does not produce enough MELANIN. Pigment is a substance that gives color to tissue and Variations in the color of human skin are because of a pigment called melanin. This is produced by special types of cells known as melanocytes.

The skin white spots are called as vitiligo or leucoderma in medical terminology.Vitamin B12 deficiency is also a causative factor in the appearance of white spots. This is because vitamin B12 is an essential vitamin that is required for cellular processes to take place – specifically the creation and division of cells.

The adrenal gland is responsible for producing a hormone called corticosteroid. White Spot disease will occurs when there is a deficiency of this hormone in our body.

The cure of white spots on skin is exposure to sunlight for long durations of time or artificial phototherapy. Cells that are responsible for pigmentation become active when the skin if exposed to light.

A medical treatment should be employed to control the disease as it may become widespread and uncontrollable. It should also be known that since this disease is inherited, it cannot be prevented. Because of this reason, a good and effective treatment is required in order to avoid psychological effects, frustration and embarrassment.

The diseases will occur only by lack of melanin. So, the treatment given by external applying creams are temporary remedies only, the medicine have to work inside to reproduce the melanin. For this white spot we found remedy from Siddha medicine (one of the old herbal base medical system in south India). And it is making small red spots on the white spot skin and it spreading  on the white to make the nature skin colour.