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Leucoderma
Leucoderma
is a skin disease that is characterized by the formation of white
patches on the skin. The term itself means white skin. In this skin
condition, skin loses the pigment melanin, a pigment responsible
for imparting color to the skin. This loss of melanin results in
white patches on the skin.
Some of the other apparent causes of lecoderma are emotional stress,
sunburns, physical illness, worms and heredity factors. This is
not infectious but is can result due to genetic factors. Genetic
factors are mainly responsible for transferring the infections.
If any person in the family has this skin condition, then other
members of the family can be affected by the genes present in the
family tree.
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