Alejandra Azcárate and her vitiligo: what is this disease?

This is the incurable disease that actress Alejandra Azcarate suffers from. We tell you what it consists of and why it is something that anyone can suffer from.

Alejandra Azcárate is a celebrity who has been characterized by not having mince words when talking about others and herself. She has been an actress, comedian, model, announcer, presenter and even a columnist, showcases from which she has been known to win affection and hatred alike, the latter due to her habit of call things by their nameso «badly seen» by some sectors of Colombian society.

Well, we tell you that faithful to her way of being openly, the woman from Bogota revealed in an interview with the magazine TV and novelswhich a year and a half ago was diagnosed with vitiligo, a disease that affects the skin and that there is no cure, whose symptoms are loss of color of the dermis, which can affect many parts of the body, only one side, one part of the body or one or only some areas of the body.

“At that moment I thought, honestly, that it was a matter of, what do I know, some exotic white spots there, that had appeared for no reason… I didn’t stop him, but then they took a biopsy from the edge of my arm and it turned out to be vitiligo… I started to cry horribly with that doctor, because I kind of entered a circuit of tenacious terror and said: ‘My God, I’m going to become a Dalmatian, how horrible.’ But well, then I relaxed and said: ‘I’m not going to die from this,'» the actress declared in a video produced by TV and novels.

“The years will come to me as they come, because unlike most women I will never be able to cheat, I literally can’t even get lasers, or anything that has light, I can’t get pimped, or Botox, or fillers, or anything; thank goodness that terrifies me, to look like a squirrel, ”she added.

The causes of vitiligo are:

  • A disorder in which the immune system attacks and destroys the melanocytes in the skin.
  • Family history (hereditary).
  • A triggering event, such as sunburn, stress, or exposure to industrial chemicals.

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With information from: TV and novels and Mayo Clinic