causes for dramatic skin color changes
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- Skin color changes can be caused by other underlying conditions or diseases including: 1  Adrenal gland dysfunction, such as Addison’s disease. 2  Congenital (hemangioma, Mongolian spot, junctional nevus)  Exposure to chemotherapy or radiation therapy.
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- Some, such as a small infection, require only simple treatment. Other causes may be more severe and require ongoing treatment. Skin cancer is very serious and may require surgery and chemotherapy to treat. It is important to check with your doctor if you notice rapid or bothersome texture or color changes in your skin.
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- Sometimes color changes in the mouth are a sign of a bodywide disease: 1  Anemia may cause the lining of the mouth to be pale instead of the normal healthy reddish pink. 2  Measles, a viral disease, can cause spots to form inside the cheeks. 3  Addison disease and cancer (such as malignant melanoma) can cause dark color changes.
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Arsenic poisoning Chronic arsenic poisoning results from drinking contaminated well water over a long period of time. Many aquifers contain high concentration of arsenic salts. The World Health Organization recommends a limit of 0.01 mg/L (10 parts per billion) of arsenic in drinking water.
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Oral Pigmentation (Causes of Discoloration Inside Mouth) Addison’s disease (chronic adrenal insufficiency) causes abnormal pigmentation of the skin and mucous membranes. In the oral cavity, the most commonly involved sites are the inner lining of the cheeks followed by the gums, tongue and lips. The color of the oral mucosa varies from bluish-black to pale brown or deep chocolate-colored pigments spread over from the cheek mucosa to the corner of the mouth.
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What Causes Discoloration of Skin? Many conditions can cause your skin to become bluish in tint. For example, bruises and varicose veins can appear blue in color. Poor circulation or inadequate oxygen levels in your blood stream can also cause your skin to turn bluish. This skin discoloration is also known as cyanosis. Cyanosis can affect your:
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Discoloration of Skin If skin discoloration occurs and changes the texture of your skin, the shape or the color, then it’s best to speak with the doctor to rule out potential skin cancer. Melasma – this condition is caused by the body irregularly producing estrogen and progesterone.
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- Skin discoloration can be due to changes in melanin. Melanin is a skin pigment that gives color to the skin. Changes in melanin can also cause skin to be patchy. Treatment for skin discoloration includes using topical treatments.
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Skin color changes Causes of Skin color changes: The following medical conditions are some of the possible causes of Skin color changes. There are likely to be other possible causes, so ask your doctor about your symptoms. Causes of skin whitening:
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- Cyanosis occurs when there’s too little oxygen in the blood. Oxygen-rich blood is deep red and is the cause of your skin’s normal color. Under oxygenated blood is more blue and causes your skin to be bluish purple. Cyanosis can develop quickly as a result of an acute health problem or external factor.
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White Spots on Skin: What Your White Patches Reveal About Your Skin Causes of Vitiligo. Melanin is the pigment that gives the skin its characteristic color. Vitiligo is caused by a loss of pigment in the skin, due to destruction of pigment-forming cells known as melanocytes. The exact cause of the destruction of the pigment-forming cells (melanocytes) in the skin is not known.
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Skin Discoloration Hyperpigmentation is skin discoloration that results in the darkening of the skin. This usually results in dark spots, dark patches, large dark areas, and such. With hyperpigmentation, there is a concentration of melanin (the pigmentation that causes darker skin) in a particular area.
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Black colored skin, Color change and Numbness or tingling Black colored skin, Color change and Numbness or tingling. WebMD Symptom Checker helps you find the most common medical conditions indicated by the symptoms black colored skin, color change and numbness or tingling including Peripheral neuropathy, Carpal tunnel syndrome, and Generalized anxiety disorder.
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Blue discoloration of the skin Skin discoloration - bluish. Cyanosis is a bluish color to the skin or mucous membrane that is usually due to a lack of oxygen in the blood. Considerations. Red blood cells provide oxygen to body tissues. Most of the time, nearly all red blood cells in the arteries carry a full supply of oxygen.
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- The diagnosis was argyria, a blue-black tinting of the skin and mucous membranes caused by a build-up of silver. Numerous similar cases have been reported in recent years.2,3 In argyria, silver deposited in the body reacts with the sun through a process similar to that of the development of a photographic negative. This leads to permanent discoloration of the skin. Changes may be seen in the eyes, lips, and nose as well. The condition was even more common in decades past, when CSP was an accepted medical treatment.
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What Causes Skin Pigmentation to Change Skin pigment serves a protective purpose in the skin. It partially protects the skin from damage by direct ultraviolet irradiation. Therefore, skin color changes to reduce the amount of UV radiation penetrating the skin. Such radiation can damage the DNA of skin cells and cause cancerous mutations.
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Breast Skin Changes Common causes of skin changes include: 1  Skin puckering or dimpling. 2  Skin puckering or dimpling can be caused by scarring from a previous operation or infection, but in the majority of cases, no specific reason can be found. 3  Most often it is not a sign of underlying cancer, but should be evaluated with exam and imaging.
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Eye Color and Why It Changes Other Causes Eye Color Change. If your eyes check out fine, then the cause of the color change is probably due to age. Aging is the most common cause of a change in eye color, gradually, after reaching adolescence. Most will lighten with age, but hazel (light brown or yellowish brown) or blue can darken.
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Skin pigmentation changes Skin pigmentation changes. Skin pigmentation changes: Introduction. Skin pigmentation changes: discoloration of the skin can be caused. See detailed information below for a list of 72 causes of Skin pigmentation changes, Symptom Checker, including diseases and drug side effect causes. » Review Causes of Skin pigmentation changes: Causes | Symptom Checker ».
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- The face color also plays a part in showing health. Bluish, red and white spots or a habitual red flushed face may indicate heart disease, too much bile, fever, and inflammations. Blood becomes too thick to circulate through the body and results in stagnation and redness. This comes from too much meat, salt, sugar.
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Orange skin Orange skin coloring can result from various disorders. One common cause is overeating of dietary items that contain orange-colored beta-carotene (e.g. pumpkins, carrots) and this often causes orange skin from carotenemia in young infants newly introduced to solids.
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Hyperpigmentation, Hypopigmentation, and Your Skin Hyperpigmentation in skin is caused by an increase in melanin, the substance in the body that is responsible for color (pigment). Certain conditions, such as pregnancy or Addison's disease (decreased function of the adrenal gland), may cause a greater production of melanin and hyperpigmentation.Exposure to sunlight is a major cause of hyperpigmentaion, and will darken already hyperpigmented areas.igmentation is the coloring of a person's skin. When a person is healthy, his or her skin will appear normal in color. In the case of illness or injury, the person's skin may change color, becoming darker (hyperpigmentation) or lighter (hypopigmentation).
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Home Remedies for Skin Pigmentation Sometimes, the melanin production goes awry; either too little or too much melanin is produced causing skin pigmentation disorders. These conditions make the skin appear lighter or darker than normal, or blotchy and discolored. Too much melanin causes hyperpigmentation and too little melanin results in hypopigmentation.
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Vitiligo Vitiligo causes white patches on your skin. It can also affect your eyes, mouth, and nose. It occurs when the cells that give your skin its color are destroyed. No one knows what destroys them. It is more common in people with autoimmune diseases, and it might run in families.
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Skin changes during pregnancy Chloasma (pigmentation changes on your face and neck) Also known as the 'mask of pregnancy', chloasma has the appearance of brown patches of pigmentation on the forehead, cheeks, and neck. On darker skinned women, they appear as lighter patches. It's caused by the increased production of melanin, the tanning hormone, which protects the skin against ultraviolet light.