What are the characteristics of psoriasis

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Cousin's face recently grew a few red papules, the area is not very big, also not linked together, do not know what this is, the doctor said it is psoriasis, let me talk about what features of psoriasis.

What are the characteristics of psoriasis

First: psoriasis of the head. Skin lesions are well-defined, covered with thick scaly erythema, sometimes fused into pieces, or even covered with scalp. The scale surface is dirty yellow or grayish yellow due to the mixture of sebum and dust, but it is still silvery white after peeling. The symptoms of this type are that the hair on the lesion is bunched like a brush, but there is no breakage or shedding. The skin lesions are well-defined, covered with thick scaly erythema, which fuse into pieces and spread all over the scalp.

Second: facial psoriasis symptoms. In the acute stage, psoriasis lesions often appear on the face, most of them are drops or nail size infiltrating red papules or erythema. Because wash a face everyday, so scale is thinner or have no scale. The lesions are scattered, or seborrheic dermatitis like, occasionally butterfly like, similar to lupus erythematosus.

Third: psoriasis on nails. About 50% of psoriasis patients have nail damage, especially pustular psoriasis patients, almost all of them have nail damage. The most common damage is that the deck is pitted, uneven and tarnished. Sometimes the deck may appear longitudinal ridge, turbidity, hypertrophy, nail bed peeling or deformity of the whole deck, and sometimes onychomycosis like changes.

matters needing attention

Psoriasis is a very common skin disease, according to the different parts of the disease, psoriasis can be divided into the above three, some of the common symptoms are described above, patients can identify themselves, and then timely treatment.