Psoriasis is one of the most mysterious and difficult-to-treat diseases. To get rid of him once and for all impossible. The only thing you can count on with the patient, to achieve the remission. On the other hand, unifying, and accepted international medical community for the treatment of psoriasis does not exist, since there is no drug hundred percent guarantee of remission.
The treatment of this complex of diseases of the skin depends on several parameters:
- Types of psoriasis;
- The age of the patient;
- The presence of comorbidities;
- The gravity and history of exacerbations;
- The location and size of the lesions.
Treatment of psoriasis is almost always an integral part of the medications and procedures aimed at addressing the causes of psoriatic flare-UPS, the part that is designed to relieve the pesky symptoms of the disease, and part of the right to maintain its own protective forces of the organism. The sad thing is that almost half of the patients does not help in any of the three pathways for the treatment of psoriasis. The drug, which has allowed thousands of people to the unity of the psoriasis in remission stable for a few years, are likely to have no effect on another thousand.
In this article we'll talk about all of the currently known means and methods of treatment of psoriasis, even the most controversial, and try to answer the question of where to start for a person who heard from the doctor disappointing diagnosis. While the popular use methods, procedures and medications have managed to collect impressive statistics of its effectiveness.
A comparative analysis of the effectiveness of the methods of treatment of psoriasis
According to the results of numerous surveys of the people with psoriasis, the hit parade of the best methods of treatment of this disease looks like this:
- A further 37% Ointment on the basis of oil refining;
- 33% - following a special diet, that is to say, the rejection of products, the use of which provokes exacerbation of psoriasis;
- 26% of the climate Change, balneotherapy, and Spa treatment. Almost a third of the patients said to improve well-being simply move to a place where the gentle Maritime climate, and clean air. The same number of patients to avoid the winter exacerbation help in the annual celebration of the season.
- 19% - Salt bath is very effective as part of the sanatorium-resort treatment, and home treatments. Sea salt contains potassium, magnesium, iodine and other minerals that are beneficial to the skin affected by the psoriasis, relieves the itching and flaking, and even improves the quality of sleep of the patient due to its relaxing effect on the nerve endings. It is recommended to buy the pharmacy from quality, natural sea salt and take a bath 2-4 times a week at night;
- 14% of Ointment on the basis of tar – good to relieve the itching , promote healing psoriatic plaques;
- 12% - Selective photo-therapy is a physiotherapeutic method of treatment of psoriasis is based on the healing effect on the skin of ultraviolet radiation with a certain wavelength. It is not suitable for all patients, but some allow for 1.5-2 months of regular treatments to achieve remission biennial;
- 12% - Potent hormonal ointments. First, give a very good therapeutic effect, but then the condition of patients deteriorates, we have to apply the ointment more often, and the help that is getting worse. A vicious circle comparable to drug addiction. Prolonged use of these drugs leads to the dysfunction of the adrenal cortex and the progressive atrophy of the skin;
- 12% - Baths, steam baths, sauna and swimming pool – completely harmless, but ineffective, method of treatment of psoriasis. According to the majority of the patients stay in the sauna followed by swimming in the cold water allows you relieve the itching and ensure a restful sleep, which in itself is not bad. But there are some people who have psoriasis on the contrary, exacerbated from excessive moisture and extreme temperatures;
- 12% - Sports and outdoors – any pleasant physical activity, whether Cycling, dancing, Hiking or playing football, the improvement of the health, strengthen the immune system, improves the mood and self-esteem of the patient, which can not but affect positively on the psoriasis;
- A 12% Ointment on the basis of the calcitriol or calcipotriol – these drugs saturate the epidermis of the active form of vitamin D, penetrate more into the blood and normalize calcium metabolism, as it almost always leads to the reduction and gradual disappearance of psoriatic plaques. The disadvantages: ointment expensive, best - of German manufacture are mainly carried out under the order;
- 10% - fasting – a radical method of treatment of psoriasis, and it allows you to obtain a remission or at least minimize the square of skin lesions in nearly all patients, but it has a lot of contraindications. Courses of fasting it is better to go to a hospital, and certainly you can not begin to starve voluntarily, without consideration and consultation with a specialist;
- A 10% Ointment on the basis of salicylic acid are, strictly speaking, not a cure for psoriasis, but also promote the healing of the plates. After the skin is cleansed of dead skin layer, it is advisable to start the treatment by other means, for example, the same fat. These ointments in a sense, prepare the epidermis as improve the absorption of active substances;
- 10% Herbal medicine – this term refers to all the methods of treatment of psoriasis with the help of the herbs: ointments, lotions, rubbing, compresses and reception of broths and infusions inside. Good efficiency is achieved, burdock root, marsh calamus, dandelion, Wheatgrass, chicory, cranberries, chamomile,, St. John's wort, celandine, nettle, raspberry, birch, marjoram, Valerian, and many other plants, however, herbal medicine is always plagued with allergies and side effects;
- 9% - Medical baths with turpentine and herbal decoction is the most secure method of psoriasis treatment, as active ingredients affect the skin only for a short time. If there are no contraindications to the therapeutic hot baths, try to take them every day for 20 minutes, adding hot water to 38 degrees, pine SAP, banana crushed,decoction of birch buds, leaves of juniper or Valerian root, grass;
- 8% - Weak and combined hormonal ointments – often used during seasonal exacerbations of psoriasis, when other methods fail to stop the growth of the plaques and the itching. For the treatment of psoriasis hormonal ointments must be treated with great care, not resort to it unnecessarily, and to abolish gradually;
- 8% - Chelators – a good addition to the diet, to help cleanse the bowel of debris and normalize so the composition of the blood, which is bound to have a positive impact on the course of psoriasis;
- 7% Ultraviolet and quartz exposure – some patients with psoriasis can help in regular visits to the Solarium, especially in combination with the use of ointments on the basis of active vitamin D. However, the lamp of quartz is preferable, if only due to the reduction of the risk of cancer with regular exposure;
- 7% - Vitamin therapy is a very controversial method of psoriasis treatment, because some patients therapeutic doses of vitamins because of the rapid improvement in health, while others – such as the rapid deterioration with severe allergies and diarrhoeal disorders in the negotiation;
- 4% - dietary Supplements – an inexhaustible source of profits for the pharmaceutical companies, which psoriasis, with its chronic and very personal about it is just a gold mine. Before you buy Bada ask, that consists of: not the way that you have used without success, or, even worse, that began worsening;
- 4% - Immunomodulators – serious drugs to be applied for the treatment of psoriasis is possible only on the testimony of immunologist in the database immunograms, otherwise it can make things worse;
- 4% - Salt of sodium or calcium (calcium chloride, sodium gluconate, sodium thiosulfate) – sometimes with a short course of injections could stop the exacerbation of the psoriasis and reduce the pain of symptoms, but as an independent method of treatment of the introduction of salts of calcium and sodium is not considered;
- 4% - Hepatoprotectors – stimulate and preserve liver function, which indirectly help to clean the blood of toxins and prevent the worsening of psoriasis. Without diet do not work;
- 4% - Dental care – in some patients, exacerbation of psoriasis occur because of undertreated teeth, when the mouth is a constant source of inflammation and a breeding ground for bacteria, waste products enter the bloodstream. To help these patients, sometimes enough to cure the tooth decay;
- 3% - body Cleansing – this refers not only the intestine cleaning method of the hydrotherapy of the colon, cleaning courses, but also for other organs: liver, lungs, kidneys. All these activities have a beneficial effect on the psoriasis;
- 3% - Treatment of parasites – the presence in the body of worms, Giardia and other parasites inevitably leads to a poisoning with products of their vital activity, and the contamination of the blood becomes in an outbreak of psoriasis. Therefore, it is recommended that all patients with a prophylactic purpose to take in a stool sample;
- 3% - Hardware purification of the blood, which is used in the treatment of severe forms of psoriasis in the hospital. Gives a very good therapeutic effect, but what is missing for a while – about two months;
- 3% - Beauty creams and oils – a good help to deal with the flaking of the skin, especially when applied immediately after a bath or shower. The simplest and the most natural, the makeup, the better. Give preference to children creams based on vegetable oils;
- 3% of the Psychics and healers – to objectively assess the efficacy of magic treatment of psoriasis, for obvious reasons, it is impossible, however, the patients of healers traditional claim to have cured thanks to the sessions, and show a clean skin. Thus, the power of suggestion has not been cancelled;
- 3% anti-inflammatory drugs for the treatment of psoriatic arthritis – some patients with ordinary psoriasis to prevent relapse help preventive course of reception of these means;
- A 2.5% - Sulfur and sulfur-zinc-ointment – protozoa drugs for the treatment of skin, infections parasitic (mange), but can also reduce the itching and flaking of psoriasis;
- 2,5% - Purified, melt, activated, and charged to the water there are many methods to give simple water of healing properties, but it is safe to say only that the consumption of this water does not harm your health, but if that will help you to overcome psoriasis is the big question;
- 2% - Homeopathy – treatment of microscopic doses of poisons natural to start the reaction of the immune response to defeat the disease. In psoriasis methods are ineffective.
- 2% of the Heat and the infrared radiation – a controversial method of psoriasis treatment, because some patients warming causes a worsening instead of improving their well-being
- 2% - Injections of corticosteroid – "the fire" methods used only in hospitals and only in the absence of other ways to help patients with the severe form of psoriasis;
- 2% - Oatmeal bath is a safe and easy way to reduce the inflammation and itching of psoriasis;
- 2% - agents Cytotoxic, highly toxic, destructive influence on the kidneys and the liver. It is used to treat the life-threatening forms of psoriasis and under strict medical supervision;
- 1.5% Apitherapy – treatment of bee products, specifically poison bee. The principle apitherapy is close to homeopathy - it is expected that the poison prostimulirujte the immune system of the patient. Sometimes it works, but let's not forget that the venom of the bee is nature's most potent allergens.
- 1,5% - Naftalan oil is a unique natural product, which is produced in the same name in Azerbaijani resort Naftalan is used for the treatment of psoriasis method applications and baths;
- 1,5% - Fungicides – preparations for internal and topical treatment of fungal diseases. Sometimes to facilitate the condition of patients with psoriasis, are only applicable to the prescription because of the risk of complications;
- 1% Yoga, meditation, hypnosis, auto-training, neuro linguistic programming and other techniques for the management of the personality can be useful in the treatment of psoriasis, because of the correct mood depends on the success of the recovery from any disease;
- 1% of Starch baths also good to relieve the itching and reduce the flaking. Starch can be very dry skin, but some patients may need only this effect. For a procedure, it is necessary to dissolve in a pot of cold water 800 g of potato starch, and then pour the solution into a warm bath;
- 1% - Compounds with vitamin A, provide symptomatic treatment of psoriasis, because the lack of this vitamin a person develops a tendency to the dryness and flaking of the skin;
- 0.5% of the Acupuncture, a technique that is based on the effects of the use of fine needles on biologically active points of the body associated with the competent bodies. Very controversial and insecure method: it has, in the first place, a very skilled acupuncturist, and secondly – a huge success in the acupuncture worked;
- With 0.5% Bio-resonance and wave therapy is a modern physiotherapy techniques that are not well proven, and can not yet boast of great success in the treatment of psoriasis;
- 0,2% - Breathing exercises, laser therapy and other controversial methods deserve the attention, but it is unlikely to secure a positive result.
