AbstractBackground and Objectives: It is possible to get vitiligo at any age, even as a baby or child. Overall, twenty-five percent of all cases of vitiligo are in children. Finding out the clinical and epidemiological trend of vitiligo in children is one of the study's goals.
Materials and Methods: The study took place from February 2018 to January 2019 at the Shree Lakshmi Narayana Institute of Medical Sciences in Puducherry, India, in the Department of Dermatology. For the study, 130 children’s who had been diagnosed with vitiligo were chosen from the dermatology department's outpatient center.
Results: There is a possibility that vitiligo could be preceded by certain precipitating circumstances. After stress and trauma, the most common history of intercurrent infection in our sample was followed by the presence of both of these factors. There is a possibility that the increased occurrence of intercurrent infections observed in our study is due, at least in part, to the deficiencies in cleanliness and the socioeconomic circumstances of the patients who are treated at our hospital. A further element could be the mother's preconceived notions about the relationship between the vitiligo and the child's previous bouts of illness.
Conclusion: Consequently, the preceding study suggests that every depigmented lesion in adolescents should be meticulously assessed and routinely monitored. The average VASI was elevated in children with a positive family history of vitiligo compared to those with a negative family history.