Treatment can reduce scaling and inflammation and sometimes clear up skin lesions.
Physicians can prescribe ointments, vitamins, light therapy and other drugs.
This unpredictable disease which affects men and women equally and strikes people of all ages, can erupt anywhere on the body. Psoriasis lesions form when new skin cells are produced at a rapid rate. Once the invading cell attaches to the normal skin cell, this fusion results in dysfunction of normal skin production. Every cell and organ in our body gives a discrete fingerprint to the immune system. You might say this is a signal to the immune system that all is functioning well.