What's going on with the white spots on the newborn's neck?

Children are inherently a vulnerable group because they are young and have low immunity, and their ability to express themselves is relatively poor. Therefore, there are many issues that parents must pay enough attention to, especially some symptoms that occur in newborns. Parents must pay attention. Some parents will find white spots on their children’s necks. What is going on? Next, let’s ask an authoritative expert to explain it to you.

White sugar rash:

Because children's sebaceous glands are not fully developed and the epidermis lacks the protection of sebum, white sugar rash is likely to occur if the skin is over-washed, especially with highly alkaline soaps. In addition, sun exposure and dry skin can further aggravate the occurrence of this disease. Pityriasis alba is different from vitiligo. The skin of vitiligo has no pigment at all, so the color is very white, and the boundary between it and normal skin is very clear. There is no scale on the surface, and it does not necessarily occur on the face.

If your child has pityriasis alba, parents should not worry. First of all, you should keep your child's face clean and never use strong alkaline soap to wash his face. After washing your face, you can apply some ointment containing silicone oil cream or 5% sulfur cream. If the child feels the affected area is a little itchy, you can also apply Compound Conal Cream. In some children, pityriasis alba on their faces may sometimes improve naturally, but the color of the local skin will still be slightly lighter than the surrounding skin.

Apart from affecting appearance, this disease has little impact on health.

Vitiligo skin disease:

Vitiligo can occur anywhere, most commonly on exposed areas such as the face, neck, back of the hands, and folds of the external genitalia. They can exist in isolation or be distributed symmetrically, along ganglia or in bands, and some can spread throughout the body, leaving only a small amount of normal skin.

When the disease first occurs, localized white spots or patches appear on a certain part of the body surface (in a few patients, it may also occur in deep tissues, such as the uveal membrane). They vary in size from rice grains to fingernails and may be single (only a small patch on the body) or scattered (multiple patches appearing simultaneously or successively on different parts of the body). Most patients do not feel anything and do not know the cause. They unknowingly discover white spots on the skin by chance. Some patients also experience local itching and discomfort before skin lesions occur, and then the skin gradually turns white.

In most patients, skin lesions develop slowly after the onset of the disease, the spread of white spots gradually accelerates, and new skin lesions continue to appear in other parts of the body surface. In a small number of patients, skin lesions spread rapidly when the disease first occurs, spreading to the entire body in a relatively short period of time, and are distributed in large diffuse patches.

There is also a special type in which the child is born with depigmented spots on a certain part of the body surface, which are distributed in the form of pale white dots and flakes. Generally, the skin lesions do not spread to other parts of the body, but only slowly increase in size locally with age. This is called congenital depigmented spots and is not diagnosed as vitiligo. However, in recent years, it has been discovered that congenital depigmentation can also develop into vitiligo. Its characteristics are that it first develops locally and then spreads to other parts of the body surface, and the color gradually changes from light white to pure white.

The diagnosis of this disease is not difficult. There is no significant difference in the incidence rate between men and women. The disease can occur in everyone from newborns to the elderly, with the peak incidence period being 6 to 25 years old. When it first occurs, it appears as dot-like or sheet-like hypopigmented spots, one or several pieces. Because the melanin is not completely lost, it appears pale white and the boundary with normal skin is not very clear. As the skin lesions gradually expand, the melanin is completely lost, and the skin becomes milky white or porcelain white, with a clear boundary from normal skin. At this time, it can be diagnosed as vitiligo and should be treated promptly.

The above is the relevant article we brought to you about what is going on with the white spots on the neck of a newborn. After reading the above article, do you know the causes of this symptom? This way, when this disease occurs, we will know how to treat and prevent it.