How to detect psoriasis in children

summary

My son is seven years old. He has white spots on his body. He suspects that he has children's psoriasis. Children can't control their hands to scratch and are not sure if it is children's psoriasis. Here's how to detect children's psoriasis.

How to detect psoriasis in children

First: Patients with psoriasis in the beginning, there will be some millet to soybean red spot rash, with the continuous development of the disease, the spot rash will gradually expand and increase, and even mutual fusion, the bottom infiltration is obvious, the edge is clear, there is inflammation around the red halo.

Second: there are coin like, drop like, map like, oyster shell like, plate-like and so on. Psoriasis has "punctate bleeding" in the early stage. When you gently scrape the film, you can see millet sized blood beads or pinhole like bleeding spots on the erythema surface. The skin lesions of psoriasis usually begin with inflammatory red papules, with the size of millet to mung bean, and then gradually expand or fuse into brownish red plaques.

Third: there is also a clear boundary, around the inflammatory halo, obvious infiltration of the base, the surface covered with multi-layer dry silver white scales. The initial symptoms of psoriasis in the skin lesions covered with very thick gray or gray scales, general head psoriasis more common, and scales easy to fall off, more itching.

matters needing attention

Psoriasis is a kind of skin disease that is difficult to cure completely and has a great possibility of recurrence. If a child has been infected with psoriasis since childhood, it will be very troublesome, so it must be found and treated early, otherwise it will accompany the child's life and even develop into psoriasis.