Psoriasis

Psoriasis is one of the most frequent skin disease, it isn't a contagious disease, and in many cases, is a hereditary disease in the family, after parents or grandparents.

Who can fall sick psoriasis and what factors can trigger it?

If psoriasis isn't inherited, it fall sick for her can persons under 30 years old, which it has a severe course, and its recurrences are frequent and more extensive. Persons between 50 -70 years old it runs gently, recurrences are rare and include smaller areas of the skin. 

Factors that can cause the appearance of psoriasis for the first time are:

• bacterial infections caused by streptococci such as angina,

• influenza,

• herpes,

• fungal infections,

• medicines analgesics,

• scratches,

• stress and strong emotional experiences such as the death of a loved one,

• inborn predisposition to allergic reactions, most often the food.

Where can appear psoriasis?

• on the skin of the hairy head, where they can be taken for severe dandruff, but the difference between them is that, psoriasis outbreaks are on the border of hair at the forehead and neck, where they form a reddened outbreak covered silvery scales,

•  on the skin smooth, most often occur on the elbows and knees, and can accompany them by changes on the scalp and nails. In people under 30 years of age, psoriasis can appear all over the body, even several times a year during the period of severe stress or infection.

• on the nails of hands and feet, in the nail plate appear depressions or grooves transverse or longitudinal. The color of the nail is also changed, part of the nail can be yellow-brown or gray-yellow-brown without gloss. Edge of the nail becomes brittle and raised,

• psoriatic arthritis, is very painful and can lead to permanent disability.

Also keep in mind that, patients with psoriasis is weak functioning of the liver.

Prevention and treatment.

People with psoriasis have a diet easy to digest, because their liver is impaired. They can not smoke because their enzyme system doesn't neutralize free radicals, and cigarettes deliver them in the trillions. One should care of the dental hygiene, because diseases of the teeth can cause latent source of infection psoriasis. One should use tools for nail care cautiously, since psoriatic changes can appear in places of cuts.

The treatment of psoriasis depends on gender, age, profession, type of psoriasis and her location and duration of the disease. At the patients who following the directions given by your doctor can minimize the frequency of relapses illness and improve the quality of your life.