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Psoriasis is a much attentive, chronic skin disorder with red, flaking spots on the skin. The disorder can adopt both light and serious forms and occurs both at men and women. The first phenomena generally reveal themselves between the 10th and 45th year of life.
The exact cause of psoriasis is unknown, but people suspect that it is due to impairment in the immune system.
Normal dying dead skin gets replaced by the new skin. At psoriasis the skin renews itself too fast.
Sometimes the reason is unidentifiable – for example stress, a throat infection, a wound, certain medecines or by scratch. Psoriasis is frequently hereditary. It is not contagious or transmissible. Lack of personal hygiene or dirt is no way cause of psoriasis.
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There its many several forms of psoriasis.
Psoriasis vulgaris, also plaque psoriasis called, flaking magnificences on the skin, small from itself usually in silver-red. Such spots can occur everywhere on the body, but are generally found on the knees, elbows and head skin. They rise and can disappear. There is generally no tingling. The spots can cover a large part of the body. Sometimes the nails could be damaged. They can come out of the skin.
Psoriasis spots are not very scaly, but they could be terrible and painful.
Psoriasis cosmos iris (erytrodermie) is a rare form of the disorder, where very large skin surfaces are put on. The skin is red, hot and dry. This is a serious disorder, where the skin can no longer do its normal function. Treatment in the hospital is then necessary.
Arthritis psoriatica is one more type.
Vitamin E oil, Moisturizer and cremes keep the skin wet and smooth.
Ointment with vitamin D – This type ointment gives frequently good results, is clean and easy in the use. This cream is not applied generally on the face.
Steroids are effective but long-term use can give side effects, among which thinning of the skin is common.
Acitretine, methotrexaat and ciclosporine are medicines which are only prescribed by a specialist because they can rather have serious side effects.
UV-B (ultraviolet lift B) and PUVA (psoralenen combined with ultraviolet a) are used where the patient is exposed to ultraviolet slightly. This can end up in getting skin cancer.
Psoriasis occurs thus less frequently in tropical and subtropical countries.
Some patients have only from time to time a couple psoriasis spots and at other is large skin surfaces covers. Small spots heal often automatically. At serious forms of psoriasis, where shares large of the body has been damaged, medical accompaniment is generally necessary. Patients can strongly from the disorder suffer, because psoriasis produces no pleasant sight. They feel themselves badly at their ease in companionship, are dejected and often isolated.
If you think that you have psoriasis, get in touch then with your general practitioner. In spite of that there no definite medication possible is, is there, however, several types treatment possible.
You can do a number of things to avoid Psoriasis
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