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Port-Wine Stain (Naevus flammeus)
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Also known as: Naevus flammeus · port-wine stain · stork bite · vascular malformation · red birthmark · port-wine birthmark baby · congenital skin mark · naevus · wine stain · red nevus
Your Body Is Speaking
Your child has carried a mark on their skin since birth — a reddish discolouration that looks as if someone left a warm fingerprint behind. Medicine calls it Naevus flammeus: a congenital dilation of fine blood vessels in the skin, visible as a flat area of redness. Some port-wine stains fade over time. Others remain for a lifetime.
The dermatological explanation describes what happens — dilated capillaries, absent nerve supply to the vessel walls, a quirk of development. But it doesn't explain why. Why this particular child? Why in this particular place? And why does something so visible, so unmissable, show itself directly on the skin — the organ that forms the boundary between inner and outer?
The psychosomatic perspective asks a different question. Not: What is wrong? But rather: What is showing itself here? What is this body expressing, before the child can speak a single word?
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