Can psoriasis infect others

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Not long ago, my roommate had white spots on his skin, with white chips falling off. When he went to the hospital for examination, he was diagnosed with psoriasis. My roommate was very afraid that it would infect us and planned to move out to live. I stopped him and took him to the hospital to consult his attending doctor. The doctor popularized a lot to us. Now let me tell you whether psoriasis can be transmitted to others.

Can psoriasis infect others

First: will psoriasis be contagious? Psoriasis is not an infectious disease. As for the question of whether psoriasis is infectious, we should first emphasize that although psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease, medical research has confirmed that the disease is not caused by direct infection of pathogenic bacteria, that is, it is not directly caused by bacteria, fungi or parasites. Psoriasis is not contagious, but has a certain genetic, the main thing is to do early detection and early treatment. Because at present we for psoriasis pathogenesis is not very clear, its etiology is more complex, etiology has not been clear.

Second: psoriasis is a very common skin disease, with distinct skin damage, because of its repeated attacks of erythema and scaly lesions, which seriously affect the quality of life of patients. Psoriasis is a kind of chronic inflammation with silvery white scales, membrane phenomenon and nodding bleeding as the main characteristics of skin diseases. The silvery scales discharged from the skin are only a kind of common protein substance confirmed by medical research. There is no infection virus in it, and it will not have any infectivity.

Third: because psoriasis is just a common chronic inflammatory reaction on the skin, the harm is directly reflected on the skin and will not be transmitted to others. With psoriasis in the crowd, psoriasis symptoms, no infectious factors. Generally, it is only related to mental factors, physical factors, diet factors, trauma, infection factors, drug factors, allergic factors and endocrine factors. Psoriasis is closely related to the external factors such as living environment and mental factors, but not to the infectious factors of human susceptibility.

matters needing attention

Patients with psoriasis should have optimistic mood and regular work and rest time. In the treatment, patients with psoriasis should not abuse drugs, otherwise it is easy to cause great side effects on the human body. Patients around people to encourage them, do not give them a lot of pressure, psoriasis is not infectious to others.