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Any Parents with Vitiligo- Was this passed on to your children?

Posted by Hope Robinson on September 25, 2010 at 9:38am
Hi everyone,

I know I have read that Vitiligo can run in Families (although in my case I am not aware of any member of my family ever having Vitiligo). My husband and I are trying to start a family but I'm concerned because I don't want to pass this on to them. Have any of you seen this in your children?

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  • Claudia Yip May 24, 2011 at 3:32am

    My mom has vitiligo, and I'm the only one so far who has inherited it from her...i've got 3 other siblings

    My mom got it when she was about 50 while i first discovered it when i was in my mid 20s...

     

  • liza May 21, 2011 at 5:30am
    my parents dont have it but my grandmother on my father side have it so me and my eldest brother and other sister have it.i dont worry with my son n daughter will have it but the dr. said my grandchildren will have the great chance to have it. it will appear in the 3rd generation
  • Kelly Ryan May 20, 2011 at 11:40am

    Great question I was curious about this too as some day in the future I would like to have children (Im 23 now). My father had vitiligo and I have it, mine started around age 12. But my two brothers do not have it they are ages 26 and 17. No one else in my family has vitiligo.

     

    Do you think pregnancy will cause our vitiligo to get a lot worse? I have read it may get worse on a website, but I have not heard that from someone pregnant directly.

    • Jahan > Kelly Ryan May 20, 2011 at 2:02pm
      None of my immediate or extended family members have vitiligo.   Passing it on to kids is something that also worries me.
  • Leana Mcphail February 17, 2011 at 1:01pm
    My mother and my grandmother both have vitiligo so im quite concerned about passing it on to my son..
  • Paula Brosnan December 13, 2010 at 11:53am

    I have had Vitiligo for 21 years and my son has had it 22 years. Two of my children do not have it. I fear my grandbabies will get it.

  • Martinke December 11, 2010 at 9:30pm
    Grand mother, mother& here brother. My brother. So it runs in our family. I started after a stress periode at the age of 40 only.
  • dr vivek December 11, 2010 at 5:30pm

    vitiligo is genetic in a small percentage of patients,while auto immunity accounts for majority of the cases,however i have seen in my clinical practice a few families in whom autoimmune diseases run,

    the chances of you passing this on to your children are remote

    however there is a small chance of your vitiligo flaring up during pregnancy and childbirth period

    dr vivek

  • Brandy Sutherland December 10, 2010 at 6:58am

     I don't have any children. However, no one in either my paternal or maternal side of the family has it.  Not as far back as either side can remember.

    • Marty BlackEagle-Carl > Brandy Sutherland December 10, 2010 at 3:12pm

      could of been a recessed gene or something.  or never came to fruition in others.

      you wear it well though. ;-)

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