To know about Psoriasis Disease

WHAT IS PSORIASIS?


Psoriasis ( sore- eye-a-sis) is a fairly common skin condition where normal skin grows too fast. While there's no one cause, it's allowed an abnormal vulnerable response affects skin cells, causing them to speed up their normal growth and pile up rather than falling down on their own.


Common symptoms

By type of psoriasis disease, its symptoms will vary from person to person. Some of the common symptoms include

  • Raised, red, inflamed lesions

  • Silvery scaly plaques

  • Small, red, individual spots ( more common in children and youthful grown-ups)

  • Dry skin leads to crack and bleed

  • Itching, burning, or soreness of the skin

  • Leveled nails or separation from the nail bed


Types of psoriasis

There 5 major types of psoriasis

  • Inverse (flexural)

  • Erythrodermic

  • Guttate

  • Pustular

  • Plaque


When psoriasis affects further than just the skin?

Some people with psoriasis develop psoriatic arthritis (around 30 in 100 people), a condition that can also affect joints at the ends of fingers, wrists, knees, and ankles. They may become stiff, painful, and swollen. Like psoriasis, there are different types of psoriatic arthritis


  1. Symmetric – affects the joints on both sides of the body, can be disabling, similar to rheumatoid arthritis

  2. Asymmetric – doesn't occur in the same joints on both sides of the body, fingers, and toes may be enlarged and joints may be warm, tender, and red

  3. Distal interphalangeal predominant – occurs in 5 in 100 people and affects the common closest to the nail on finger and toes

  4. Spondylitis – a lump of the spinal column, causing stiffness of the spine at the neck, lower back, and can also be present in the hands, arms, hips, legs, and feet.


  1. Arthritis mutilans – occurs in smaller than 5 in 100 people and is a severe, screwing arthritis that affects small joints of the hands and feet and may get neck or lower back pain


Since psoriasis is an immune disease, it may be associated with an increased threat of hypertension, obesity, elevated lips, heart complaint, diabetes,  bowel complaint, carcinoma, and depression.


Cycles, flare-ups & triggers


Utmost types of psoriasis go through cycles. You may witness long ages (weeks or indeed months) of no symptoms, appearing to go into complete remission. But because psoriasis is a chronic (or long-lasting) complaint, symptoms can return, or" flare-up".


Symptom flare-ups can be distressing, having a significant impact on your daily life. They're caused by external factors in the environment, known as triggers. Triggers affect everyone differently. Common symptom triggers include


  • Stress

  • Injury to skin

  • Cold weather

  • Smoking and Alcohol Consumption

  • Certain medications


Talk to the doctor for Psoriasis treatment in Coimbatore for the better treatment of psoriasis.
Location: India

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