What is psoriasis?
Psoriasis is a chronic autoimmune skin disease.
Often its hereditary disease, It can appear at any age without known reason and it effects differently each person.
The disease appears mostly on the scalp, joints, back and buttock, but may appear under the nails and other parts of the body.
Psoriasis characteristics are scaly bumps which are caused by fast growth and turnover of epidermal cells (the upper skin layer); that causes thick scaly skin.
Five types of psoriasis
There are five types of psoriasis, each has his own symptoms:
- Plaque – Appears as reddish skin with scalps.
- Guttae – little red spots.
- Pustular – White blisters and red skin around
- Flexural – red cracks in the skin folds
- Erithrodermis – Spreading redness and itching with severe pain.
On some extreme cases, the discomfort and the pain psoriasis causes can disturb daily life and even cause Psoriatic arthritis.
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