Cafe au lait stain

Some children are born with birthmarks on their bodies. The birthmarks that people normally see are red, black, and there is also a type of birthmark called cafe au lait birthmark. In fact, there is a reason for the formation of each birthmark. Some birthmarks are not obvious, but some people's birthmarks are large and obvious. For example, café au lait spots. Many people stay away from people with large birthmarks on their bodies, but in fact, birthmarks are not that scary.

Café au lait spots are commonly known as coffee spots. Not many newborn babies have them, but for some children, it is a bad thing. Others feel uncomfortable when seeing them, and they themselves will feel sad. Some people who don’t know about them may even regard them as monsters.

1. Brown spots can occur anywhere on the body and will not disappear on their own.

2. Café au lait spots can be diagnosed based on the presence of clearly-margined café au lait-colored spots at birth.

3. It must be differentiated from freckles and simple freckles. Freckles are small in spots, without large patchy lesions, and mainly occur on the face. Simple lentigo is usually a unilateral localized disease. Pathology can also help with identification.

The pathological changes of coffee spots include increased epidermal melanin, especially in the basal layer. There are giant melanosomes in DOPA-stained melanocytes and keratinocytes in the basal layer, and the melanocytes in the basal layer are normal or slightly increased.

Café au lait spots are a hereditary skin disease. In this disease, the amount of melanin in melanocytes and keratinocytes in the pigmented spots increases, the melanocytes become overactive, and a large amount of melanin is produced, forming pigmented spots.

Not all children with café au lait birthmarks have serious ones. Some have light-colored ones, while others have darker café au lait birthmarks. People who have had café au lait spots since childhood may be discriminated against by others. Some people with severe cases may not only be discriminated against but also excluded. Therefore, I hope that everyone can treat people with birthmarks like normal people, because they need care just like us.