If you have Psoriasis, how do you deal with it? What treatments have worked for you?
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Thanks in adavnce.
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There are many different treatments available to help control psoriasis, but no single treatment works for everyone. Usually a trial-and-error approach is taken to find the most appropriate one.
You have 3 basic types of treatments:
1.Topical treatment (applied directly to the skin)
2.Phototherapy (skin is exposed to ultraviolet light)
3.Systemic treatment (drugs or medications taken orally or by injection)
There is also a great number of alternative psoriasis treatments that include everything from acupuncture to fasting.
The goal is to find a treatment that works the best with the fewest side effects. One of the first principles of psoriasis treatment is to not create anything worse than the disease.
Best Wishes
Depending on where it is a good natural exfoliant is great. Sea salt and runny honey. Then get some vaseline cream and use it liberally. Many steroid based creams are too harsh. Tea tree and lavender oil are natural antiseptics too.
I too have psoriasis for 25 years. Its very important that no oral steroids are taken. Since my patches were very large finally my skin specialist prescribed Methotrexate 10 mg per week. It was 15 mg per week for the first few weeks. I have to undergo SGOT and SGPT tests for the blood. Once in 2 months. I have resonded well to Methotrexate. Sometimes, I do use oinments containing steroids for local application on body as well as the scalp. BUT, pl remember, its all with the prescription of a skin specialist. There are many good web sites on the subject e.g. psoriasis foundation www.psoriasis.org; www.psoriasis-association.org.
Pl be aware of online pharmacies. These are nothing but quacks.
Hope, this info will help.
MP Jain
You might want to join the National Psoriasis Foundation. Go to their web site. In the orange toolbar, click on " Treatments". Then go down to " What Works For me". These are letters from people who have found ways to control their psoriasis. Many are natural products that are found in the home or on grocery store shelves. They also have a newsletter that is helpful. Because it is a foundation, it is very inexpensive to join.
oilatum for you,r bath simple soap, coal tar soap seaweed soap if you can get it aqueous cream and i,ve heard e45 cream is good also, i don,t have this complaint myself but our lodger doe,s its not curable but you can reduce the effects of it by useing these products, you,r doctor can prescribe other stuff as well as what i,ve already mentioned appearently its due to a fast metabolism whatever that means but it grows the skin to fast and it has to have somewhere to go so it flakes off appearently its all to do with the nervous system
I have guttatte psoriasis. Have had three major outbreaks, the second covered about 85% of my body, from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet it was BAD. So I did UVB light therapy 4 times a week at the dermatologist office. I also got a prescription for this lotion that I had to get specially made at a compound pharmacy. Have no idea what it was called but it smelled like gasoline and ruins any clothes/bedsheets you use, and you have to bathe twice to get the smell out of your skin every morning. I'm not sure how much the gasoline lotion helped, but let me tell you the light therapy was heaven sent. It cleared up my skin completely in three weeks, except for a few small spots here and there. It was amazing, and the plus side is it gives you a great tan!
Go to psoriasis.org : a wealth of information how to cope with psoriasis. As to the treatment: Champori anti-psoriasis cream and spray worked for me. Been clear for almost 4 years now. (mine was plaque psor.)
Best,
Bernadette
Having support and information is the best way to understand and deal with psoriasis. try http://www.skinoriginal.com/psoriasis/6-... for more information, and perhaps some remedies for you.
Hope it helps!
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