Psoriasis is a skin condition that most medical professionals would assert is inherited from birth, a genetic disorder that is not contagious.
Unfortunately, and more often than not, people with psoriasis are met with much public discrimination. Some scoff or cringe when they see this condition for fear of getting infected when, in fact, ignorance about the nature of psoriasis is more contagious than the disease itself.
Psoriasis surfaces with a wide range of severity, from annoying, chronic itching to debilitating skin and joint pain/damage. It can appear on the skin in peeling red blotches or not appear in any obvious way at all. When it does appear, it tends to look like red, irritated, flaking/scaling skin.
Psoriasis can be divided into three categories, depending on the extent: Mild (1% to 3%), Moderate (3% to 10%), or Severe (10% or more). Common symptoms include itching skin, flaking, burning sensations and nail indentations.
Psoriasis is the body forgetting how to live in it’s own skin. It occurs when malfunctioning defensive cells (T-cells) attack healthy skin cells, which they mistake for malicious or harmful cells that must be attacked and removed. These misbehaving immune systems give rise to hyper-active skin cell production which, in turn, causes irritation, flaking and itchiness.
Much of the research that is currently being done on Psoriasis is still a work in progress, which is to say that medical professionals still don’t entirely understand what sets off this disease, or where it comes from in the first place.
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