About Psoriasis

Psoriasis is a common, persistent or recurrent inflammatory skin disorder in adults, whose cause is unknown. It seems that there is a strong genetic element, although this is not evident in every case. The large majority of sufferers go through life with a few psoriatic plaques or have just one attack with more generalized lesions. For these comparatively lucky people the disease is no bar to work of any type. Unfortunately there are several groups of psoriatic whose skin problem interferes with their work.

Psoriasis is a persistent and recurrent inflammatory skin disease for which there is currently no long-term cure. However, there are ways of inducing remissions or at least improving virtually all patients with the disorder. Hare we shall be discussing treatments suitable for patients with mild or moderate psoriasis, as well as some of the effects of treatments given for patients with the more severe forms of the disease, which are commenced by specialist departments and may be continued as out-patient therapy in the community