Psoriasis (scaly lichen) is a serious systemic disease, from the manifestations of which at least 4% of the total population of the Earth suffers. Unfortunately, the etiology (origin) of psoriasis has not been fully established, therefore this pathology is still ranked to the list of incurable ailments.
Causes and symptoms of the disease
Psoriasis is a disease that makes itself very vividly. So, on the skin of a patient with an appropriate diagnosis, first single, and then multiple relief convex inflamed red-pink spots. These rashes, in addition, are covered with a mass of silver-gray scales, which are easily removed under the slightest mechanical effect.
Psoriasis is a chronic disease, which is accompanied by a mass of unpleasant symptoms. So, in the foci of skin lesion, intense itching, peeling, hyperemia, swelling are determined. Patients with psoriasis are faced with general weakness, decrease in disability, dizziness, various neurosis, fever and malaise.
In addition, psoriasis has long turned from medical into a psychological and even social problem. The thing is that the "updated" appearance of the injured skin becomes the cause of the origin of complexes, determines depressive conditions and causes the development of other forms of psycho -emotional disorders. In this regard, patients with psoriasis, with a comprehensive fight against the disease, visit the office of not only a dermatologist, but also a psychotherapist.
Of course, medical scientists put forward a lot of versions explaining the appearance of psoriatic plaques on the skin with the action of certain causing factors. So, the most popular theory of the origin of psoriasis is autoimmune. Its main idea is that psoriasis is a consequence of a hypertrophied attack by the body of healthy epidermis cells, as a result of which they begin to grow intensively, multiply and transform into such psoriatic foci familiar to the eye of any modern person.
Among other approaches to understanding the essence of psoriasis, they are popular:
- Metabolic (exchange);
- Endocrine (hormonal);
- Neurogenic (stress);
- Drug;
- Toxic.
This means that you can inherit not only the disease itself, but even a predisposition to the appearance of hated psoriatic plaques on the skin. So, according to the disappointing data of medical statistics, the risk of psoriasis in people whose relatives have already encountered this problem increases to 70-75%. Pathology can unexpectedly declare itself at any age against the background of an immune, endocrine or metabolic failure, or become a consequence of the infectious (viral) disease.
The unclear of the etiology of psoriasis leads to the fact that a single universal therapeutic scheme, which could help patients forever forget about this addicted disease. All therapeutic measures that dermatologists select for their patients are exclusively symptomatic and aimed at minimizing the inflammatory process, eliminating unpleasant sensations on the skin, preventing complications and exacerbations of psoriasis.
The best pharmacy products to combat pathology
Effective treatment of psoriasis should be complex. Thus, the standard scheme for therapy of the disease involves the use of systemic drugs of various spectrum of action, external products from psoriasis (gels, ointments, creams, sprays, shampoos with antibacterial, keratolytic, anti -inflammatory effects), physiotherapy and effective folk compositions (decoctions, infusions based on medicinal plants).
The best treatment of psoriasis usually begins with the use of local remedies. They help relieve inflammation, eliminate peeling and itching, effectively fight hyperemia and swelling, contribute to the rapid removal of psoriatic plaques from the skin and prevent the appearance of new elements of the rash.
Folk therapy of the disease
It is advisable to supplement the drug treatment of psoriasis with effective decoctions, infusions, tinctures based on medicinal plants. As well as homemade ointments, creams and other compositions of their own preparation.
Of course, according to dermatologists, the use of these mixtures is designed to provide only an auxiliary symptomatic effect on the body, but you should not refuse them.
Consider several useful recipes that can be used in a complex home fight against psoriasis:
- 20 chicken eggs are boiled in boiling water for 20 minutes, after cleaned from the shell, the protein is separated from the yolk, the latter is fried in a dry pan without oil for 45 minutes on the minimum fire. The finished mass is wrapped in gauze, squeezed out - the resulting liquid is treated with psoriatic whores twice a day until complete cleansing the skin from rashes.
- The affected areas of the skin can be lubricated daily with a brine with sauerkraut - an excellent anti -inflammatory and antibacterial agent.
- With a small amount of castor oil, a cotton swab is impregnated, and psoriasis foci are treated. After two to three hours, this area of the skin is washed with running water and soap. Manipulations are repeated daily for 2 weeks.
- Fat Technical solidol is an effective remedy for psoriasis. Before starting the treatment, it is necessary to carry out an allergic test - apply a small amount of the product to a small area of the skin, wait half an hour, see if the rash appeared. If no abnormal manifestations are found, you can proceed to local therapy: first, psoriatic foci can be treated with a solidol daily, and after 15 minutes it was washed off with a homemade medicine with a tar with a tar. After a week and a half, you can increase the duration of the procedure to 1 hour. The total duration of treatment is 1-1. 5 months.
The general therapeutic scheme is selected by dermatologists for each person with the corresponding diagnosis, taking into account the mass of factors - shape, type, severity and stage of psoriasis, age, general health, individual characteristics of the body, etc. Only a competent specialist will be able to correctly choose the treatment of such a complex systemic disease as psriasis.