Leave silver scales to fish, not fatal women. Psoriasis is an inflammatory skin disease that can have silver or red and appear on any part of the body.
As mentioned earlier, skin cells live for about four weeks, but in the case of psoriasis, they are aging in just 3-4 days, which manifests itself in the form of strong peeling. Psoriasis may be accompanied by itching and discomfort, but it is not contagious.
- Psoriasis is sick about 1 out of 50 Russian people.
- According to the national organization of psoriasis, about 7. 5 million Americans have this disease.
- Approximately 2-3% of the population of the planet suffers from psoriasis (about 125, 000, 000 people! ).
- Typically, psoriasis appears at the age of 15 to 40 years, but it can occur at any age. In 75% of people, psoriasis occurred up to 40 years.
Psoriasis is more common in fair -skinned people and very rare in people living in tropical and sunny climate.
Action plan
In this section, we will consider how to deal with psoriasis. But first, let's find out what this disease can cause.
Patients with psoriasis often have a genetic predisposition to this. However, the psoriasis gene can be passive for many years and activate only under the influence of certain stimuli. Psoriasis can cause the following factors: chemicals, injury, throat infections/poor health, medicine, physical or emotional stress. If psoriasis appeared in your adult or adolescence, find out its causes as follows.
Remember the time when psoriasis appeared: what did you do at that time? Could you start using new means of caring for yourself or try new food? Or maybe you survived the move? Think about whether you did repairs or, perhaps, changed the carpets? Were your home or workplace treated with pesticides? Have you experienced personal or financial difficulties? Were you sick with a viral disease? Have you taken medicine? Did you smoke?
It is important to find out what activated the psoriasis gene, and you are subject to this factor now. For example, if psoriasis is caused by stress, begin to perform relaxing exercises. If the cause was an infectious disease of the throat, begin to strengthen the immunity, take probiotics, zinc and there is garlic and anti -aging broth. If, according to your assumptions, he was provoked by medication (which you still take), talk to the doctor about the possibility of replacing it (do not cancel therapy yourself).
Factors aggravating psoriasis:
- alcohol
- Anxiety and anxiety
- chemicals
- Chemical cleaning substances
- diseases, severe throat infections
- Medicines
- stress, psychological injuries, inability to cope with skin injury (comb, operation)
- disadvantage of vitamins and minerals
- Cold climate
- Poor digestion
- impaired liver function
- Excessive meat consumption/saturated fats
- fungus
- Cigarette smoke
Attention: a cigarette can help you temporarily relax, but you should not think that smoking is useful for treating psoriasis. In fact, smoking is a shock for psoriasis. During one of the studies, it turned out that the longer you smoke, the more psoriasis is aggravated. Even passive smoking does harm to the skin.
Step -by -step treatment:
- Moisten the skin with warm water, or by taking a very warm bath or shower, or moisturizing individual parts of the body. It is recommended not to wipe off for at least a few minutes. Bathing in the bath is a safe and effective way to remove dead skin.
- Glue the skin with a towel, then apply a tiny (really tiny) amount of olive/coconut oil or fat ointment. Remember, the smaller ointments or oil you apply, the more efficient the products work. Gently rub the oil/ointment until they completely absorb. According to a specialist in the field of psoriasis, the longer you apply the product, the better it acts.
- After you apply oil/ointment to the affected areas, you can notice that they look dry again. Immediately, while the skin is a little wet, apply another layer of the product on them. Rube it thoroughly again. For the best results, this procedure needs to be repeated at least twice a day. In the case of a severe form of psoriasis, you can do this up to five times a day. When the symptoms decrease markedly, carry out the procedure once a day.
- For a faster result every day, go out in the sun for 10 minutes after applying the ointment: moisten the skin with water, get wet, apply oil/ointment and go out in the sun. After tanning, do not wash off the oil. Excess oil can be gently removed with a damp towel (do not trim the skin).
- Do not try to remove peeling until the skin is dry.
- It makes no sense to apply moisturizers to completely dry skin.
External treatment
For the above treatment, the following funds can be used:
Extra Virgin olive oil. The phrase Extra Virgin means that the oil has undergone less treatment and contains a larger amount of vitamin E (useful for the skin of an antioxidant) than conventional olive oil. Add a teaspoon of oil to the bath. Olive oil is effective for the treatment of psoriasis and it costs relatively inexpensive.
Extra Virgin coconut oil. Contains Capric acid with an antifungal effect, and antibacterial Lauric acid contained in skin fat. This is one of the most respected oils in British pharmacology. It protects the skin from microbes and dryness. Suitable for the treatment of psoriasis.
Ointments. Pay attention to the presence in them of components such as papaya, TriglyCeride fat, grape seed oil, bee wax and vitamin E. Ointments are ideal for eliminating peeling and dry areas
Psoriasis
Treatment with water, sun and oil can be combined with a program of combating psoriasis. This program is aimed at preventing a repeated occurrence of rashes.
Please note that this program is suitable only for adults (people over 15 years old). Children suffering from psoriasis should use treatment with water, sun and oil four times a week.
Patients with psoriasis often have too low the content of antioxidant of glutathioneperoxidase, which can be explained by excessive loss of skin cells, excessive consumption of alcohol and fatty foods. Glutation is the most important antioxidant of the body, playing an important role in the defense of the body against diseases and helping the liver to remove pesticides, alcohol and heavy metals. He needs a person to maintain youth. The selenium mineral in combination with vitamin E can return the level of glutation to normal.
The first thing to do for the treatment of psoriasis is to start taking additives for cleansing the liver.
An effective additive (including suitable for the treatment of psoriasis) should contain selenium, vitamin E, vitamin A/beta-carotene, zinc, magnesium, vitamin B6, glycine, taurine, glutamine and vitamin S. Address for cleansing the liver for 2-4 weeks.
You can protect yourself from toxic polyamins by taking vitamin A and GoldensEal Canadian.
People suffering from psoriasis often lack vitamin A and zinc - the nutrients necessary for the health of the skin. Therefore, when buying an additive to cleanse the liver, make sure that it contains vitamin A/beta-carotene and zinc.
Moisturization of the body
Make sure that you drink enough water or other moisturizing liquids so that your skin is beautiful and clean. Moisturizing drinks include herbal teas, freshly squeezed vegetable juices, mineral water, dandelion tea and many other drinks listed in the section with recipes.
According to international study, in patients with psoriasis, the level of omega-3 in the blood is reduced. Omega-3-irreplaceable fatty acids necessary for the health of the skin. Cells need essential fatty acids for normal work, since without them cell membranes become stiff.
Skin cells can lose tightness and release moisture, which irritates the surrounding tissues, causes redness and swelling. Omega-3 has an anti-inflammatory effect, reducing inflammation with psoriasis.
In order to relieve inflammation and peeling, Omega-3 must be transformed into EPK and DGK.
If you take fish oil, it is important to receive the therapeutic dose of EPK and DGK. Fish oil is more effective in the treatment of psoriasis than flaxseed, but you can include it in your diet.
Less stress, more rest
As mentioned earlier, psoriasis can provoke stress and anxiety, but do not understand me wrong, stress is not always harmful: short -term stress can give you a charge of energy and an incentive to action.
Chronic stress and anxiety lead to a wide variety of health problems.
Moreover, they literally "suck" the nutrients from your body. For example, you are afraid of final exams and cannot sleep. You are afraid not to hand over, and by the time you end the test, your body will lack the vitamins of group B and minerals that the liver simply will not be able to cope with its task. As a result, psoriasis appears. Your skin suffers if the liver and the immune system are overloaded with work.
Stress weakens the immune system, as it increases the production of adrenal hormones. These stress hormones include corticosteroids and adrenaline, which suppress the immune system. One study proved that psoriasis can appear on any part of the body within a month after you have experienced stress.
Learn to cope with stress
What to do if you have psoriasis due to stress, but you do not have the opportunity to quit all things and conduct unplanned leave in Nepal? There are many ways to forget about your problems for a while and restore internal balance.
Take a warm bath at the end of a hard day. Baths are very effective in the treatment of psoriasis, moreover, they help the body switch to the "rest and digestion" mode. Take a relaxing bath 3-4 times a week. You can combine baths with treatment with water, sun and oil.