Cost
The cost is the appearance of dark areas in the skin in the form of brown pigmentation and then gradually to become dark color, and affects the cost of men and women, but the proportion of women are greater, and increase the incidence of these pigments with increased exposure to sunlight, and also increase during pregnancy because of change The large hormones during pregnancy, and the cost affects all skin types, but increases in the owners of dark skin.
The underlying causes of the cost
- Genetic factor: The genetic factor is one of the most important causes of the burden of cost, as women who are often cost is a member of her family has been cost in the past.
- Direct exposure to the sun: It is one of the most important factors that lead to the emergence of costs, because the sun contains ultraviolet radiation, which leads to increased secretion of melatonin responsible for the emergence of pigmentation in the skin.
- Pregnancy: The large increase in hormones during pregnancy is one of the main reasons for the emergence of costs, and women who use pills are more prone to the emergence of costs.
- The use of certain medicines and creams that lead to the incidence of cost.
Symptoms of the disease
They can appear in the form of small brown spots on the face, and these pigments can be without regular borders and may take the form of a mask that covers the skin completely and is called the mask of pregnancy.
Types of costs
The cost can be divided into types according to the degree of cost:
- Deep costs: The brown pigment is present in a deep layer of the skin, one of the most difficult types of treatment.
- Surface costs: In this case, pigments are found in the surface layer of the skin, and the possibility of treatment is easier.
- Mixed costs: The dye is present in this case between the two layers of the surface and deep.
Treatments are used to relieve the effects of clots
- Do not be exposed to direct sunlight, especially at noon, and use a high sun visor in the degree of protection, can resort to wearing clothes that will provide you with protection from sunlight.
- The use of creams to unify and lighten the color of the skin. Brightening creams can be used with sunscreen creams, and excellent results can be obtained if the cost is superficial. These creams exfoliate the surface layer of the skin containing the cost, or can inhibit the production process. Melatonin of melanocytes, and used these creams at night, taking care to use a small amount of cream to avoid the occurrence of side effects, and it requires a period of time to show the results required.
- The use of peeling crystals: a skin peeling superficially and several sessions, and is useful in the treatment of cases of surface costs.
- Chemical peeling: This type of treatment is used if none of the other methods is successful. It is a quick treatment of the costs and is performed by the specialist doctor.
- Laser: It is one of the effective treatment methods for the cost.