The modern methods of psoriasis treatment

Diseases of the skin, are usually manifestations of internal problems of the body: impaired immunity, diseases of the vital organs, poisoning, stress. Therefore, the therapy often takes years, and diseases such as psoriasis, is still considered incurable. However, there is a good news...

When we speak of the impossibility of a complete cure of a disease, which means that it is manifested in different degrees throughout the life. To make these manifestations are rare and not causando severe discomfort modern medicine quite quite.

What determines the choice of treatment of psoriasis

Psoriasis is a chronic skin disease that can have a variety of reasons. It is diagnosed at any age in people of both sexes, although more often detected in the periods: 16-22 years and 57-60 years (the so-called age peaks). According to the world health organization (who suffer from psoriasis 4% of the population of the world.

Other name of psoriasis — psoriasis. The disease manifests itself in the form of itchy patches or plaques of pink color, covered with silvery scales. Rashes are localized in the knee and the elbow, scalp, hands, feet. Advanced forms of psoriasis affect the nails.

Unlike other types of lichen, psoriasis does not spread from person to person and presumably has a nature autoimmune. Your treatment should be based primarily on the diagnosis of the reasons why the body begins to attack its own skin cells. These reasons can be:

• genetic predisposition (around a third of the cases);
• allergies;
• endocrine diseases;
• the reaction to the drug or the overdose of them;
• damage to the skin, wounds or inflammation;
• stress;
• infectious disease (flu, sore throat);
• the alcoholism;
• Smoking.

Approximately 30% of patients develop psoriatic arthritis (PSA), which often leads to disability. To avoid these serious complications, to diagnose psoriasis and begin necessary treatment as soon as possible.

Modern approaches of treatment

The treatment must be individual and complex, and may not be universal for all scheme, because in the appearance and development of psoriasis can be involved many factors, including the psychological state of the patient. You usually have to use various methods ranging from the most gentle and superficial and gradually increase a therapeutic effect in various systems of the body. However, this does not solve the problem of the diseases concomitant, that are detected in more than 50% of patients with psoriasis and worsen the clinical picture, such as inflammation of different parts of the gastrointestinal tract, ENT organs, urinary system, as well as hypertension, diabetes. Requires experience and knowledge of doctors from various medical fields, but often show a high efficiency of the individual methods of alternative treatment. As well, the popular approaches of medicine Tibetan aimed at optimizing all the vital processes of the body from the first procedures.

Methods for the effective treatment of psoriasis

Psoriasis is known since ancient times, so that their treatment is based on long observations of the patients. It is established that the relief of their condition to contribute to the dosed exposure to sunlight, eating right, reducing stress, and prompt treatment of infections, debridement of large injury lichen. This data has found its application in the development of various types of therapy.

The medication

Takes a minimum of six weeks and is predominantly external. Basically medications prescribed for psoriasis are powerful and have a number of side effects. With the appearance of nausea, vomiting, decreased vision, dizziness and other symptoms, should seek medical attention immediately.

• Drugs vitamins D3, A and E. Ointments that have a dermatotropic and antipsoriatic action contains analogues of vitamin D, calcipotriol , tacalcitol, calcitriol, and also-vitaminum-sicut funds. Contraindicated in children and pregnant women, should not be more than 20-35% from the surface of the skin. The combination of drugs with each other and with vitamins may increase their therapeutic and side effects. Taking this into account, developed a balanced combination of external funds, which contains a complex of retinol palmitate (vitamin A), alpha acetate, tocopherol (vitamin E), ergocalciferol (vitamin D2).
• Immunosuppressants (immunosuppressants). These are the drugs, such as methotrexate , cyclosporine and leflunomide. The side effects can affect the kidneys, the pancreas and the liver, and is also expressed in arterial hypertension, tremor, weakness, headache, skin reactions. Anti-inflammatory effect, reducing the autoimmune effects.
• Corticosteroids. Hormonal treatment in the form of ointments, creams, emulsions, gels. Have a pronounced anti-inflammatory, antipruritic and antiallergic activity. Assigned to a single component of external preparations containing glucocorticoids and long-acting III–IV class activity — clobetasol, betamethasone , triamcinolone, mometasone, methylprednisolone and combined with other active substances — antibiotics, salicylic acid and urea. The administration of steroid drugs to the interior of the psoriasis is not assigned because of the high probability of an effect of cancellation: in the first place, there has been a significant improvement in the health of the patient, but after the medication became worse than before the treatment. The main idea of a glucocorticoid therapy is the achievement of maximum therapeutic effect with the lowest possible doses.
• Innovative products. Primarily used abroad, and are of high cost. You need to understand that the immune suppression generally leads to frequent respiratory infections, diarrhea, nausea, headaches chronic, so that the lack of improvement after five months of use of the drug overturned.

Physical therapy

The effects of light, sound and electrical current at different frequencies is widely used in the treatment of psoriasis and gives a minimum of side effects.

• The UV-radiation. Efficient simulation of the sun, which can be arranged in the clinic, the Solarium or in the home. It is important to harmonize the duration and frequency of treatments with your doctor individually and not to overcome them. Side effect of the aging of the skin, the appearance of malignant tumors.
• The use of narrowband UV-b therapy with a wavelength of 311 nm. An innovative method is used as monotherapy. The course of the treatment is 2.5 months, if the duration of a procedure in a few minutes. The procedures are assigned three times a week. Visible marked clinical improvement and sustained remission up to 2 years.
• Ultrasonic therapy. Anti-inflammatory, resolving, analgesic, antipruritic effect. Does not have contraindications, but may not be used for psoriasis on the scalp.
• PUVA. Photochemotherapy effective in the lesions on the scalp, palms of hands and soles of the feet. The rate of 15-25 procedures local exposure to UV radiation, with a duration of 3-4 hours.
• Electrosleep. Treatments aimed at the improvement of the condition of the nervous system of the patient in cases where there is a strong stress factor. To expose the brain to the weakness of pulsed current patient artificially immersed in the dream. The course can range from 12 to 30 sessions, lasting 30-40 minutes. Turn off the unit immediately after the patient is asleep, awakening occurs independently and safely.
• Laser therapy. The course of 7-9 procedures lasting no more than 3 minutes. Laser radiation normalizes and restores the skin and prevents the formation of new lesions. Remission lasts for at least a year, and in the complex therapy of psoriasis may not bother the patient for several years.

When you assign a course of physiotherapy, it is important not to miss treatments, not to reduce, but not increase their number at its discretion.

Surgical treatment

Rarely used because it is an additional stress to the body, but in some cases can significantly improve the condition of the patient.

If the appearance of psoriasis is associated with sui elite of the body, from the colon, subjected to Martynov. To surgically restore the integrity of the valve, especially between the small and large intestine, which performs the protection of the properties, blocking the path of pathogens. After this plastic surgery marked relief to patients with not only psoriasis, but also with the allergies, bronchial asthma, atopic dermatitis, peptic ulcer disease.

Also surgical methods are used for nail psoriasis: nail, removal can solve the problem, and in its place grew a healthy nail plate.

Climatotherapy

Spa treatment in the warm sea or mountain Sunny climate stations has a beneficial effect on the condition of patients with psoriasis. The most popular on the coast of the Dead sea (Israel, Jordan), mountains of the Pamirs (Tajikistan). Especially effective is the combination of a favorable climate and, of course, the thermal baths.

The diet

Excess weight is one of the triggers of psoriasis, in addition, when the disease is often marked cases of fatty degeneration of the liver. Diet recommend complete abstinence from alcohol, fats, and foods spicy, reduce the intake of the amount of flour and confectionery. The main food should be milk, meat, plant products, useful fish. If the patient throughout life, even there were isolated cases of allergic reactions to certain foods such as chocolate, citrus, honey — these should also be eliminated.

Correction of style of life

For patients with psoriasis is not valid any intoxication-related life style: Smoking, drinking alcohol, eating fast food, work in dangerous industries, the use of caustic household chemicals. The local should monitor the frequency of cleaning, dust and pet hair does not cause any allergies. Stress reduction, sound sleep, appropriate rest, walks in the fresh air will do good for the patient with psoriasis.

Diet and correction of lifestyle — deceptively simple treatments. If the list of restrictions is too long and acts in depressing the patient, will not benefit. It is necessary to distinguish between domestic drunkenness and alcoholism, ad hoc tobacco Smoking and the addiction to the nicotine, promiscuity and food cravings to harmful products, due to hormonal changes. In the presence of a long-term bad habits will require additional diagnosis and treatment of the comorbidities.

The traditional methods of

At home, to relieve the patients with psoriasis often turn to the traditional disinfectant, anti-inflammatory and antiburn media. It is one of the creams and lotions on the basis of birch tar, solidol, copper sulfate, warm baths with herbs (celandine, succession) or salts. The ingredients can be purchased separately and mix according to the chosen recipe or purchased at a pharmacy in point ointment, herbal or bath. Side effects are usually minimal, but the therapeutic effect is pronounced weakly. These methods can be used as an extra in the complex treatment of psoriasis.

The approaches of medicine Tibetan

Tibetan medicine works in the treatment of psoriasis in various areas:

• the purification of the lymph, blood, liver, the bile ducts;
• the normalization of metabolic processes;
• increase of immunity;
• harmonization of psycho-emotional background;
• removing the skin itching and burning.

To achieve these objectives, there are various types of acupressure therapy (acupuncture, moxibustion), massage (acupressure, empty, with hot stones), a complex of medicinal herbs (infusions, ointments, compresses, baths). Unlike Tibetan medicine soft suspendisse libero effects on the body on a deep level, allowing you to treat the causes of psoriasis with the first procedures, which in general offers European medicine. Receptive to the methods of Tibetan medicine the patients can get in a couple of weeks the effect is comparable to the long-term comprehensive treatment in European clinics.

Psoriasis is a disease that requires an individual approach, without a chase for fast results. Qualified healthcare provider when the course of therapy will be guided by the set of data and, if necessary, make adjustments to the frequency, duration, and orientation procedures. In different periods of life, depending on the age, hormonal, chronic diseases, conditions of work and life, some methods may lose their effectiveness and others to come to the fore. The discipline, of correction and of life style of relaxed, trusting relationship with the doctor helps to make the symptoms of psoriasis is rare and minimal.