Light Spots On Back

The color of dark spots may depend on the tone of a person s skin.

Light spots on back. Ultraviolet uv light speeds up the production of melanin a natural pigment that gives skin its color. Use of commercial tanning lamps and beds also can cause age spots. Dark spots on the skin can range from light brown to dark brown. The number and size of white spots vary but they re generally round.

The spots are the same texture as the skin and are not painful. Age spots are caused by overactive pigment cells. This is rarely an option for those with black skin. Light skinned people may chose to forgo treatment because their white spots are not visible particularly if the victim does not tan her unaffected skin.

These spots usually cause no symptoms are 1 3 millimeters mm in size and tend to appear first on the legs before progressing to the arms upper back and face. They re more noticeable on tanned skin and may get larger over time. Researchers are not sure what. Ok so i have these light brown blotches that appear on my chest back and back of my neck.

I am a 17 year old female im 5 8 and weigh about 150 pounds. The social consequences are too great. Tinea versicolor can appear as white spots or spots in shades of pink red and brown.