To meaningfully discuss the different types of autoimmune diseases, we first need to understand what autoimmune diseases are and how they are classified. What are Autoimmune Diseases? When you are healthy, your body’s immune system can tell the difference between your body’s healthy cells and foreign cells. In anContinue Reading
What is Facial Psoriasis? Facial psoriasis tends to have emotional effects on patients in addition to the general noticeable psoriasis symptoms, as facial skin is difficult to cover. Very often the hairline is also affected and marked with visible plaques. For these reasons, facial psoriasis is experienced as particularly stressful.Continue Reading
Even though there are many genital psoriasis treatment options available, treating genital psoriasis may be difficult due to the sensitivity of the skin affected by this autoimmune disease. Is Genital Psoriasis Contagious? Genital psoriasis is not an STD and it is not contagious. The most common type ofContinue Reading
No. There is no cure for nail psoriasis. Depending on the severity of the disease, nail psoriasis treatment can prove to be a laborious effort that may take very long before it yields desired results. Nail Psoriasis: What Causes It? When psoriasis affects hands or toenails, doctors speak of nailContinue Reading
The best treatment for scalp psoriasis is determined by the severity of the disease. Let’s first consider what scalp psoriasis is and what causes it. What is Scalp Psoriasis? Psoriasis affects the scalp and forehead in more than two-thirds of psoriasis patients. This makes these areas by far the mostContinue Reading
Psoriatic arthritis treatment is mainly aimed at 1) reducing joint pain and stiffness complaints and 2) inhibiting the disease activity and the associated joint damage. What is Psoriatic Arthritis? Psoriatic arthritis is a form of inflammatory rheumatism in which you also have the skin disease psoriasis. Most of theContinue Reading
Erythroderma treatment is vital when a person suffers from erythrodermic psoriasis, a rare but very serious type of psoriasis. Why is erythrodermic psoriasis a serious condition? In this skin disease, the patient has widespread, fiery, burning skin that is itchy and painful. Some risk factors increase the chance of thisContinue Reading
Choosing the best pustular psoriasis treatment option is largely determined by the type of pustular psoriasis a person suffers from. What is pustular psoriasis? Pustular psoriasis is a rare subspecies of psoriasis that manifests itself as superficial, flat pustules on various parts of the skin. The pus in the lesionsContinue Reading
Inverse psoriasis treatment is pretty much the same as for the other forms of psoriasis in the sense that treatment is mainly aimed at bringing relief from the symptoms of inverse psoriasis. The success of the initial treatment will determine if more intensive treatment is required. Inverse psoriasis (aka flexuralContinue Reading
To address guttate psoriasis treatment appropriately, we first need to understand what guttate psoriasis is and what causes it. What is Guttate Psoriasis? Guttate psoriasis is the second most common type of psoriasis (plaque psoriasis is the most common type of this autoimmune disease) in which an acute and suddenContinue Reading
