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Conference moira::parenting

Title:Parenting
Notice:Previous PARENTING version at MOIRA::PARENTING_V3
Moderator:GEMEVN::FAIMANY
Created:Thu Apr 09 1992
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1292
Total number of notes:34837

684.0. "Skin disorders (dermatology)" by OASS::STDBKR::Burden_d (Synchromesh gearboxes are for wimps) Fri Jan 28 1994 14:24

We are bringing our son, Anthony, aged 5, to a dermatologist.  He has 
slightly dark skin (my wife is half Italian) but he also has a darker area 
that seems to have been getting larger over the years.  It's mainly on his 
right arm, shoulder and chest.  She said they mentioned it might be 
something like 'vertigo' although she doesn't think that's the right name. 
What was the name of the thing that Michael Jackson claimed he has?

Anyway, we'll know more in a week or so.

Dave

ps - I couldn't find any note with 'skin' or 'derm' in it.  If I missed 
something, feel free to move this note.
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684.1Vitiligo?BOBSBX::STEGNERFri Jan 28 1994 14:4814
    I think the disease is "vitiligo", but that's when you _lose_ 
    pigmentation in your skin, so you get white spots.
    
    My oldest son has some patches of melanin, too.  He wasn't born
    with any of them, but his doctor said they are cafe au lait spots.
    He used to have one at the base of his throat that was the size of
    a small egg, but it's disappeared.
    
    My sister's daughter has a bunch of freckles on her knee that spell
    "rat", in lowercase letters.  I'm not kidding--it's clear as a bell.
    Luckily, the letters are upside down so the daughter hasn't noticed
    it yet...  :-)
684.2 I have vitiligoASABET::TRUMPOLTLiz Trumpolt - 223-7195, MSO2-2/F3Mon Jan 31 1994 10:3010
    Vitiligo is when the dark skin cells die and turn white (Lose of
    Pigmentation)  I have had this since I was a pre-teen and my older
    brother has had it since he was around 5 (he's 36 now).  
    
    I am sure that the dark patchs are nothing to worry about but you are
    doing the right thing by taking him to the dematoligist to have them
    checked out.
    
    
    Liz