Initial symptoms of psoriasis in the elderly

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Psoriasis is very common in our life. There are many factors for the occurrence of this disease. In our life, there are many factors that cause it. There are many types of symptoms. Different types will have different symptoms. Regardless of gender and age, anyone can cause the occurrence of psoriasis. Especially in the old age, the decline of body resistance will show the characteristics of slow metabolism, decreased resistance and physiological function, so the elderly are more vulnerable to psoriasis. What are the symptoms of psoriasis in the elderly?

Initial symptoms of psoriasis in the elderly

Psoriasis skin damage is generally inflammatory red papules, millet to mung bean large, then gradually expanded or fused into brown red plaque, clear boundary, around the inflammatory red halo, obvious basal infiltration. The surface is covered with layers of dry silver white scales.

The skin lesions of psoriasis symptoms in the elderly belong to drop like, suddenly turning into large patches or original skin lesions. After treatment, the patient was cured. Recently, the skin lesions suddenly occurred or infiltrative plaques appeared in the original skin lesions, and showed continuous progress. This kind of old people's psoriasis condition aggravates, the skin lesions are mostly plaque like, color purple dark, thick scales and tightly adhere to the plaque, not easy to peel off.

Silvery white scale, membrane phenomenon and punctate hemorrhage are the three major symptoms of psoriasis in the elderly. Gently scrape off the surface scales, then expose a layer of light red shiny translucent film, this is the prickle cell layer in the epidermis, called the film phenomenon. Then scrape off the film, that is, to reach the top of the dermal papillary layer, where the capillaries are scraped, there are small bleeding points, called punctate bleeding phenomenon.

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The above gives you a detailed introduction of the symptoms of psoriasis in the elderly, I believe you will have a better understanding of this disease after reading. Elderly psoriasis is very harmful to patients, so experts suggest that the elderly once found psoriasis must be treated in a timely manner.