Scratching The Truth Behind Psoriasis And Psoriasis Causes

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It itches like hell and you just can’t stand how it looks. It’s red, flaky, and thick with silver-white patches, which seem to be fit for a fish – no wonder they’re called scales. Having psoriasis, more than its inconvenience, can bring a lot more strain in your life.

It can ruin your social life, destroy your self-confidence and make your life simply miserable because of it.

The impulse to rub it out is strong but before you wage a war against it you must first know exactly what it is and what psoriasis causes are.

Psoriasis is a chronic skin condition that manifests red scaly skin with irritation. It is startlingly a very common skin condition that may affect anybody without a specific age range and can appear in a sudden incident or it can progress slowly over time.

It may also caught you off guard by unexpected flare-ups and sometimes irritatingly again and again. The silver lining in all these – it’s not contagious.

There are three areas of psoriasis causes – one is genetics, second is the immune system causes and the third one is environmental. In genetics, if one or both of your parents have it, most likely you’ll have it too.

By observation, the disorder seems to be inherited over family lines and it’s really frustrating that of all the many things that can be passed on to you, psoriasis is one of those.

The immune system on the other hand plays a great role in the mechanism of this disease. Normally our immune system’s white cells produce antibodies that fight of the infections but in patients with psoriasis, their special white blood cells called T-cells become overly active.

In their over activity, the normal skin process of formation, maturation and sloughing off that takes about 30 days to complete becomes full circle in 3 to 4 days. The T-cells-produced chemicals that supposed to help heal the skin are instead helping the irritation and triggering the inflammation.

With this, it follows that those patients who are suffering from weakened immunity like those with AIDS, with auto immune diseases and those who are undergoing chemotherapy are prone to suffer severely from this skin condition.

The third of these psoriasis is the environmental factor.

The environment emits several factors that worsen or trigger the breakouts. Medical professionals have noted that those patients who are suffering from strep throat and/or other upper respiratory tract infections will expectedly experience the psoriasis attack.

It is concluded that bacterial and viral infections can worsen the skin condition.

If the air is dry or your skin is, better go to the nearest store to buy up some moisturizing lotion. Dryness can greatly irritate the skin, which in turn will lead to a flare up. It’s also no different if you’re afflicted with skin injuries or you are too stressed out.

The same goes with other medications. If you are suffering from malaria, bipolar tendencies or in serious need of beta blockers, your luck surely is running out. The medications for the mentioned conditions are most likely to cause psoriasis breakouts.

Too much or too little sunlight is also a known trigger. Knowing these causes will not make your psoriasis go but it will help you understand the underlying mechanism of what you’re dealing with.

In knowing the cause you are one step near in learning to control it and win the battle against psoriasis.

Also, there are various topical creams available, like Dermasis by Revitol.

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