Hey guys, was wondering if anyone knew what are the chances of a child getting vitiligo if one parent has it. I want kids someday but I fear passing it on to them..
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I was also checking about the same.. got few info on this..check out the following link:
http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/vitiligo
i believe there is no connection. i know few parents who have vitiligo and kids are normal.
Genetic pre-disposition is a primary cause.
In order to trigger vitiligo, one has to have one or more secondary causes (physical traumas/friction, oxidative stress, and emotional/psychological stress). Additionally, a severe trigger event (not systematic) has to happen.
Otherwise, a vitiligo pre-disposed person may live a whole life without having white patches.
Suggested Model:
Physical traumas = friction, injuries, itches, scratches, allergies, sun burns, impacts, violent moves, and others.
Oxidative stress (excess of free radicals). It's a complex concept that can be reached by many ways. The major ones are: food allergy, poor diet, leaky gut and dysbiosis (parasites, candida, h-pylori, yeast, fungus, etc.). It can be additionally caused by toxic chemical compounds and pollutants in your body, hydrogenated fats, all kinds of pollution (air, water and food), oils that have been heated to very high temperatures, cigarette smoke (directly inhaled or secondhand), dehydration, too much sugar, too much animal protein in your diet, geophysical stress (like living near power lines or waste dumps), viral infections, preservatives in your food, drugs (over the counter and prescription), artificial food colorings and flavorings, plastics and phthalates, chemical cleaning supplies, chlorinated water (that you drink, shower or swim in), alcohol, pesticides in your food, radiation exposure, psychological and emotional stress, endurance exercise and * incredibly * physical traumas (muscle damaging anaerobic training, trauma or injury to muscle, bone and skin). Oxidative stress causes defect in the membrane integrity, also causes lipid peroxidation, generates hydrogen peroxide in the skin and mutates mitochondrial DNA. All this weakens cell adhesion. NSV starts because people who are pre-disposed to have dysfunctional melanocytes, start having mutated melanocytes. Their cell adhesion becomes compromised.
Psychological and emotional systematic stress. Examples:
→ if you are a person who is feeling completely out of place;
→ you feel that you are no one in the group or you have no sense of belonging;
→ if you are a ”yes-but” person;
→ if you are never satisfied with what you have / how you look / what you are;
→ if you feel that there is lack of joy in your life, etc.
Thank you guys for your kind words. I guess it was just a bad day.
I feel so relieved and more confident with the situation
From my research I've discovered that the probability is higher when Vitiligo is carried on the female gene. But, sometimes genetics has nothing to do with Vitiligo. Either way, when you procreate you will make beautiful children.. Vitiligo should not hold you back from doing anything!!!
So true.
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