What is psoriasis

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My wife likes to wipe all kinds of skin care products on her body. As a result, she has a rash on her body recently, and she looks very itchy. She looks very painful. Later, she went to the hospital for examination, and the result is psoriasis. Let's talk about psoriasis.

What is psoriasis

First, it is a common chronic, recurrent and inflammatory skin disease. It is characterized by papules and erythema of different sizes, covered with silvery white scales on the surface, with clear boundary. It is easy to occur on the scalp, limb extension and back. Men are more than women. It is easy to relapse or aggravate in spring and winter, and it is easy to relieve in summer and autumn.

Second: the cause of psoriasis is complex. There is no definite cause. Psoriasis may be a genetic cause. Psoriasis is a polygenic disease. This indicates that psoriasis incidence rate in the population will be relatively high and often accompanied by familial diseases. The prevalence rate of male is higher than that of female.

Third: psoriasis brings great harm to people, not only the surface of the skin is not beautiful, has a great impact on people's internal physical health, and the spirit of patients with psoriasis is usually too nervous, causing a series of psychological problems, leading to endocrine disorders, immune function decline.

matters needing attention

For patients with psoriasis in addition to firm confidence, but also need to pay attention to patience, because psoriasis is not a disease that can be quickly cured, to cure psoriasis is to need a long-term adherence process, so patients should be patient, do not believe in what fast treatment.