Psoriasis, commonly known as psoriasis, is a chronic inflammatory skin disease with a long course and a tendency to recur, in some cases almost for life. The disease develops mainly in young adults and has a significant impact on the physical health and mental status of patients. The clinical manifestations are mainly erythema and scaling, which can develop all over the body, with scalp and extremities more common, and mostly aggravated in winter. The following are the common problems of psoriasis.
1.Is psoriasis a contagious disease?
Psoriasis has a tendency of family susceptibility, but it is not a contagious disease. Several people in a family will suffer from psoriasis because they have the same genetic background and living environment, not related to infection.
2.Can psoriasis patients get married and have children?
Female patients need to consider carefully if they want to get pregnant, and it is best to get pregnant after the disease is controlled and stabilized. Psoriasis is a chronic skin disease, non-infectious, and usually does not affect physical health, so psoriasis patients can get married.
3.Is psoriasis related to mental factors?
Psoriasis is a disease of the body and mind, and mental factors are the main factors for triggering and aggravation. It is not uncommon for psoriasis to be triggered by various psychological factors such as mental tension, work strain, family disputes, emotional depression and contradictions in economic interests.
4.Is psoriasis an incurable disease?
Psoriasis is not an incurable disease. An expert once conducted a 20-year patient tracking survey and found that most patients with lighter conditions do not affect work, study and life, and even patients with widespread distribution of lesions in disease episodes can be reduced after treatment, or even disappear completely, and there are few patients with heavy conditions and long-term failure to reduce.
5.What are the reasons for the occurrence and aggravation of psoriasis?
(1) The occurrence of psoriasis is related to heredity: it has been confirmed that psoriasis has genetic susceptibility, and the definite gene will be inherited, but whether it will lead to the development of psoriasis varies from person to person.
(2) Infection is one of the important triggering factors of psoriasis: although the cause of psoriasis is unknown, there is conclusive evidence that infection is an important trigger of psoriasis, especially in winter and spring, upper respiratory tract infections, streptococcus, etc. are likely to lead to the onset of psoriasis.
(3) Diet, season, climate, and psoriasis relationship: many patients report that the occurrence and aggravation are related to certain things, among which eating seafood such as fish and shrimp and drinking alcohol aggravates and triggers the majority. A nationwide survey found that psoriasis is seen more in the spring of the first onset, often aggravated by cold and alleviated by warmth, and the incidence rate in the north of China is higher than that in the south.
6.Can psoriasis become cancerous?
Psoriasis is a chronic, inflammatory, benign skin disease, and there are almost no patients who develop cancer from psoriasis rash.
7.What should psoriasis patients pay attention to when bathing?
(1) When bathing, it is better to take a dip bath so as to achieve the purpose of softening the skin lesions and removing the scales.
(2) The bathing temperature of patients should not be too hot, generally above and below body temperature.
(3) psoriasis lesions should not be stimulated, so you should not use irritating soap and the concentration of medicinal soap should not be too high.
(4) regulate the room temperature, summer should avoid wind, winter should pay attention to insulation.
(5) For elderly patients, attention should be paid to the fact that the soaking time should not be too long, strong rubbing is prohibited, and bathing alone and immediately after exercise after meals is prohibited.
(6) Patients with conditions can choose seawater bath, hot spring bath, sugar bath and bran bath, or boil the liquid with water to remove the slag, and then do a full-body or partial bath.
8.Do psoriasis patients need to avoid eating?
Our experience is that there is no need to strictly abstain from eating, just pay proper attention not to overdo it, and patients should be given the necessary supplements and can eat more high-protein foods. Therefore, we do not advocate blindly abstaining from eating, it should be different from person to person, and it is best to abstain from eating under the guidance of experts.