May
21
Are dermal diseases hereditary?
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This question cannot be entirely answered in the affirmative but then there are reasons to believe that at least some of the dermal diseases are genetically biased.
Let’s take the instance of vitiligo or leucoderma. This disease is largely hereditary and affects a child if mother has shown symptoms of it or has bore it in the past. Also, diseases like scalp degeneration is mildly hereditary. A mother suffering from degeneration of scalp can easily push the ailment forward to children though the malady might take as much as adolescence to set in.
Other dermal diseases like eczema are not genetically based. Leprosy can show signs of affecting offspring but the progenies may be spared of this excruciating ailment. The idea is to understand that diseases that have a deep mesodermal base can affect progenies in a bigger way than those diseases that have only got an epidermal (outer skin) bearing.