What is Vitiligo? | Clipmarks


	What is Vitiligo?

dorine

8-27-2007 11:47 AM

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vitiligo, skin, disease, health

dorine says:

I didn't know what this was. Just ran across it mentioned in a blog.

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8-28-2007 7:42 AM

Deepti

doesn't Michael Jackson suffer from this?

8-28-2007 7:53 AM

dorine

Yes, he does. I didn't know the name of it. Learning something new every day at the Clip!

8-28-2007 2:31 PM

pyrogyne

Actually, I have it. I'm really pale naturally, so it isn't at all obvious, but I do have a white stripe in my hair at the nape of my neck, and a white patch around one eye that makes some of my eyebrow and eyelashes white as well.

8-28-2007 2:36 PM

skwirlinator

I always just called them 'splotches'

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