I have a small patch of vitiligo and now my girlfriend is pregnant. will my offs!

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I'm covered head to toe in vitiligo and my parents don't have it nor did any of my grand parents. If Your GF doesnt carry the disease/gene in her family, the chances of your baby having it is low. Thankfully, it's not a fatal disease and can be coped with.

Vitiligo has certain relation with heredity. Clinically， it is seldom that father and daughter, mother and child, mother and daughter, twin brothers and sisters all get this disease.
According to the case analysis, people of the same egg can be affected with this disease together; there is also the circumstance of the household outbreak. Because of this it is thought that vitiligo has something to do with heredity. The sufferer's household history reported at home and abroad is different, it is 18.75-40% abroad, and the domestic rate is 10-30%. This involves a rigorous problem: Can the person with vitiligo marry and have children? This is the problem that many patients and their friends and relatives care about very much, particularly the puberty young men and women.

Because people have prejudice and discrimination to vitiligo patients, many young patients are under pressure. Though vitiligo has something to do with heredity, and there is also the report that people living in double embryos’ with single egg will be affected by the bad thing at the same time. And people put forward the theory that vitiligo may be a kind of disease caused by chromosome gene abnormity. Seen from the heredity angle, inheriting is only one factor for vitiligo outbreak. In addition, the environment factor, such as: life style, the work and living environment, dietary habit, and mental state etc., also play an important role in the outbreak of vitiligo. Generally vitiligo will outbreak under the influence of heredity factor and environment factors. Therefore, even the heredity factor has already existed, as long as they get rid of the bad environmental influence, people can not get vitiligo either. Moreover, the heredity and environmental factors vary from person to person. From this, the probability that vitiligo inherits to the next generation is less than other hereditary diseases; so the vitiligo patients can get married have children.
What needs to be noticed is that: vitiligo patients should not marry vitiligo patients. If parents have the disease history of vitiligo, the son and daughter should notice the influence of the environmental factor. They should also live a regular life, avoid the spirit incitement, and attend the athletics actively. If the person discovers that the skin has excrescent white spot, he or she should go to the hospital for treatment in time, and live up to it and bear the belief: protect yourself from getting vitiligo early, go for the treatment early and then you will recover soon.

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At this point there is no way to predict the probability of your offspring having vitiligo. Since the condition is recessive there is a small likelihood your child may have vitiligo, but there is no guarantee he/she will.

No, because research on vitiligo say that is not caused by inheritance.

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