I've had it for years. Then I was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes. I tried changing my diet to suit the diabetes - low carbs, whole wheats, leafy greens - and my IBS flared up so badly. It was bad before I started taking my metformin/glucofage but it got increasingly worse when I changed my diet for the diabetes.
Newborns are also coated with a thick, pasty, white material called vernix caseosa (made up of the fetus' shed skin cells and skin gland secretions), most of which will be washed off during the baby's first bath.
Vitiligo or leukoderma is a typical health condition that affects skin pigmentation of infants. The destruction of skin cells that create the coloration of the outer skin leads to white patches on the skinâs surface. Vitiligo can also affect the other parts of the body, including nostrils, eyeballs or mouth.