Mongolian Spot

[Kamama]

What is a Mongolian spot?

[Coharie Roy]

I posted this several years ago.
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Physical Traits
Thought the following web sites on Mongolian spots might be of interest. Mongolian spots on infants are extremely common among Native Americans, Asians, and Africans, but rare among caucasians.

Apparently, they're quite common among those of Sephardic Jewish as well as Portugese Jewish descent. {Sephardic means Spanish.}

(Many melungeon researchers claim a Portugese connection. They may be right. After the Spanish Inquisition of 1492, and the Portugese Inquisition of 1497, many Sephardic and Portugese Jews were expelled from Spain and Portugal. Many wound up in Holland [ Is this the origin of the "Black Dutch" ? ], many in Brazil, and many in the Cape Verde, Angola, and Senegal regions of Africa, where they participated with the Portugese as well as the Dutch in the slave trade. They often took native wives. These Sephardic and Portugese Jews found their way to the United States via Holland to New Amsterdam [ New York ], via being sold as slaves, and via other routes. Further evidence of a Sephardic and Portugese Jewish connection is found among the Mattamuskeet Indians of coastal North Carolina, where, in 1701, the famous North Carolina historian, John Lawson, speaks of observing two families of the Mattamuskeet Indians practicing circumcision; a practice he said he'd never observed among any of the numerous other Indian tribes he visited.)
http://www.fwcc.org/mongolianspot.htm
http://www.fpnotebook.com/PED30.htm

[Red Metis]

They look like bluish-green bruises on a baby's backside. They can be prominent enough to make people think that it might be a sign of child abuse.
My oldest son is very fair and didn't have them. My daughter did and youngest son does as well. They will fade over time but sometimes they don't do so completely.

[Kamama]

Thank you Coharie Roy and Red Metis. I never knew what those spots were and what they were called.

[Dreaminghawk]

My spot is on my inner thigh. It has faded a lot now but was very prominent when I was a child. 2 inches in diameter and looked like a very large dark freckle. Becky's is on her outer thigh ....my first wife's was on her face, starting under her eye and going around to her ear. She called hers a "port wine stain". Has anyone heard that term used when they occur on "white folks"?

[Red Metis]

Hey Dreaminghawk! I think they'd call it the same thing. I would think that it can happen on 'darker' skinned white folks, too. It doesn't seem genetic--just a thing that occurs under the presence of more melanin.
The port-wine stain is a flat hemangioma. Angiomas are vascular lesions--kinda like a capillary overgrowth. I have several angiomas but mine look more like red moles because they're not flat. They are a lot less likely to fade than mongolian spots. I think you can give some serious cash to a dermatologist to help fade it. I could be wrong--seem to remember them being very resistant to removal.

[ConnieVentersLewis]

Both my sons were born with the same discoloratons on their
buttocks and lower backs, more green in color, exactly like the
photo. My father told me that my sibilings and I had similar
discolarations on our Butts. All three of my grand children were
born with Mongolian Spots.