Skin specialists and genital Bintaro Premier Hospital, Dwi Kurniati Detty, said 90 percent of cases of psoriasis induced stress. The rest is due to the consumption of alcohol, drugs, trauma, and infection.
"The number of people with psoriasis have increased. Beginning in 2000, the number of people with psoriasis 2.5 percent of the population and now increased to 5 percent, "said Detty in the seminar" Beware of Attack Arthritis and Psoriasis Skin "on Saturday (14/7), in Tangerang.
Psoriasis is a skin disorder in the form of rough scales stacked with thick red base. Skin disorder occurs due to the formation of skin too quickly. "A normal person takes 28 days to form a skin, whereas patients with psoriasis only three days. This happens because there is a cytokine that stimulates white blood cells to multiply so that the formation of induced skin more quickly, "said Detty.
In the early stages, difficult to diagnose psoriasis. Characteristics of the disease is similar to other skin diseases, such as fungal disorders, eczema, viruses, and leprosy. However, psoriasis is not contagious.
About 70 percent of the signs and symptoms of psoriasis cases initially form a very thick appearance of dandruff. After that, the skin disorder spread to the elbows, knees, palms, soles of the feet, hips back, and whole body.
Psoriasis is an incurable chronic disease, to prevent recurrence, patients with psoriasis are expected to avoid stress, alcohol, and cigarettes. They are also advised to exercise and healthy eating pattern.
In mild cases of psoriasis, treatment simply use a moisturizer / oil and ointment applied to the skin. For severe cases, patients need to undergo phototherapy, corticosteroids, retinoids, or injectable drugs.
"To watch, patients should be careful to use steroids. Steroid use in monitoring doctors should and should not be more than two weeks since the skin can actually declined, "Detty said.
It could be arthritis
Medical specialist in internal medicine and rheumatologic consultant RS Premier Bintaro, Mohammad Anwar, adding, in some cases, psoriasis can develop into psoriatic arthritis, which is the state in which the patient had nail abnormalities, inflammation of the joints of fingers, as well as the formation of new bone in the joints .
A total of 26 percent or one-third of people with psoriasis psoriatic arthritis.
"Treatment of joints with biological agents is very expensive, can reach about USD 50 million, and should be repeated one year later. Because of that, so know the symptoms of psoriasis, patients should immediately see, "he said.
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