2023-04-20 14:03:14
How does pregnancy mask also called melasma occur? We posed the question to Dr Marie Jourdan, dermatologistwhich also warns us once morest bad habits.
The article below is the transcription of the video associated with this article.
Melasma? Mysterious origins
The pregnancy mask is a chronic pigment disorder that in reality we hide deep inside from the beginning. In fact, it has its origins in the farthest reaches of the genetic code and therefore not everyone will make a pregnancy mask. If we are genetically predisposed – and unfortunately, we will not necessarily know – we will see the appearance of on his face pigmented layers not very well limited in particular areas at the level, at the top of the cheekbones, at the level of the forehead sometimes and regularly on the upper lip, which gives a little dirty tint to the skin. Sometimes we have the impression of having a mustache in the photos, it’s special.
A phenomenon very dependent on the sun
And this pigment disorder, we will realize that it responds to the luminosity of the sun. It increases in summer and decreases in fall. but it is hard to get rid of it completely. And this is where we will consult. We are going to realize that these are not at all classic sunspots that we are going to remove and which will not necessarily come back immediately or else we will have others and we will have removed those that we wanted to remove. There, not at all. We see that the appearance of the pregnancy mask… moreover, we stopped calling her pregnancy mask because in 80% of cases, there is no pregnancy at all. It has nothing to do. And this chronic pigment disorder, it doesn’t look like sun spots.
Sun spots are really small round oval spots, well defined, slightly brown, which will gradually accumulate on the face. The pregnancy mask is much larger patches with somewhat crumbled borders reminiscent of a geographical map. It’s more like a bit of a dirty tint, but it’s not as well limited as a sun spot. And this pregnancy mask will change with the seasons, whereas once you have a spot of sunshine, you have it! we keep it.
Sun spots are small round oval spots, well defined, slightly brown, which will gradually accumulate on the face. The pregnancy mask is much larger spots with slightly crumbled borders that make you think of a map. Dr Marie Jourdan
From time to time the mask of pregnancy, what is actually called melasma will fade in the fall winter and will increase significantly in the summer. There is a predisposition to melasma. And someone who does not have this predisposition, He will be able to go to the sun, there will be no melasma. It is much more common in women, much rarer in men, but it is possible.
Not all equal in the face of melasma
And then there are families where there are melasmas. So obviously, we find this somewhat genetic character as far as types of skin conducive to melasma, it is true that we find them particularly around the Mediterranean, but let’s say that on very, very fair skin, it’s a little rarer, on very, very dark skin, black skin, if you develop one, you won’t necessarily see it very well. So we’re going to end up on skin that’s either fair or a little dull, where melasma is going to be particularly visible when you don’t know whether or not you’re predisposed to melasma, you just have to be aware that on this genetic code of which you don’t I’m not necessarily aware, there are going to be factors which stimulate, which rekindle the melasma.
And these factors is 1 the sun and more specifically sunlight, not specifically the sun on the beach, it’s really light, even when the weather is not very nice and as long as there is a certain luminosity, even visible light, it can stimulate melasma.
Irritative phenomena, scrubs, rubbing can aggravate, stimulate melasma. Dr Marie Jourdan
The second factor is hormonal movements. Changing pills, stopping pills, taking pills, pregnancy, all of this can stimulate melasma that you weren’t aware of.
And finally, a factor that is talked regarding a little less but which is important is irritation. The irritative phenomena scrubs, rubbing can aggravate, stimulate melasma. And that, it’s important because when you start to see that you have spots, there are a lot of people who will start doing scrubs, to clean their face and in fact they can, by stimulating the microcirculation of the face, in fact they can do the opposite. They can feed that facial pigmentation.
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