How to quickly cure the symptoms of psoriasis and to achieve long-term remission

Psoriasis is a very difficult therapy and brings a strong physical and moral discomfort. Many patients wonder how to cure psoriasis fast and permanently. Unfortunately, this is impossible. There is no single scheme of treatment and generic medicines, which is a guarantee of improvement. But with the adequate and persistent therapy may achieve sustained remission.

As the disease manifests itself

Eruption, when the disease is often localized around the knees and elbows, affects the skin under the hair. The spots are round plaques, the surface of which is covered with scales. The color of the formations varies from pink to bright red. It is raised above the skin level and is mainly of symmetrical shape, sometimes unable to focus on a specific part of the body, therefore, have the form of the original strips.

In the initial phase of the size of the platelets is only a few millimeters, but as the disease progresses they may reach 10 cm or more. The skin is dry, flaky and prone to bleeding.

The disease can affect the skin partially, when there are a few places of different size, or almost completely, with the injuries that they cover a large part of the body.

Non-drug treatments

According to statistics, the list of the main methods of treatment of psoriasis is in the following sequence (with decreasing efficiency):

• The diet, which consists of the denial of food, causing the exacerbation of the disease.
• The hardware method of cleaning the blood (plasmapheresis) is a technique used in conditions stationary in the serious illness. The method is very effective, but only lasts so long, stains will begin to appear after 1.5—2 months.
• Spa treatment, sludge treatment and climate change sometimes help you heal quickly the symptoms of psoriasis. The third part of the patients feel significant relief after moving to a city with clean air and humid Maritime climate. And the patients that for various reasons can not afford the movement, which tries to spend all the vacation in the sanatorium near the sea.
• Salt baths are part of the Spa treatment, but can also be used as a home. Natural sea salt (without aromatic and other additives) contains minerals that improve the condition of the skin in psoriasis. In addition, warm salt baths help to reduce the itching and flaking, quickly normalize the sleep of the patient. Course of treatment: 3-4 times a week before going to sleep.
• Selective phototherapy is the method of exposure of the affected skin to ultraviolet radiation. The method does not help everyone, but some manage for a couple of months of regular exposure to the care of the psoriasis, in order to achieve long-term remission.
• Sauna, steam bath and a steam room helps to the units, but it is a harmless treatment, therefore, is recommended as an alternative if other methods prove ineffective.
• Acupuncture is a technique of influence on bioactive points of the body with thin needles. Method is ineffective, but some patients claimed that he helped a lot of time to forget about the disease.
• Bioresonance therapy is a new physical therapy technique that allows for a long time to get rid of the symptoms of psoriasis. Method modern, but poorly proven.

An active lifestyle that includes any moderate exercise, improves the General condition of the patient, improves immunity and psychological comfort. This, in turn, positively reflected in dynamics of treatment of psoriasis.

Internal integrated therapy

A comprehensive treatment of the disease always pursues three objectives: the elimination of the causes of exacerbations, get rid of the symptoms and maintenance of immunity at the proper level. Unfortunately, even this approach does not help to recover fully, but only to lengthen the period of remission.

Internal therapy involves taking the following drugs:

• Chelators to help rid the digestive tract of toxins, to improve the characteristics of the blood, which positively affects the condition of the skin.
• The injection of sodium and calcium (calcium chloride, gluconate calcium, sodium thiosulfate) used a brief course in combination with other therapeutic measures.
• Antihistamines are prescribed for swelling, itching and allergic reactions. In addition to antipruritic, show a sedative effect, improving sleep patient.
• Medications to support liver function, promote the elimination of toxins.
• Antibiotics of different groups are assigned when psoriasis is complicated by the accession of secondary infection.
• Injection of corticosteroids is required in severe conducted in a hospital environment.
• Cytotoxic agents are highly toxic by means that adversely affect the liver and kidneys. Only apply to the forms, that put in danger the life of the patient.

In addition, is assigned to a multivitamin — month course twice a year.

External funds

These drugs are chosen based on the shape and severity of the disease.

In mild cases, shows a non-hormonal creams and gels, in the most severe of therapy may include hormone continens media.

The most common external preparation:

• Drugs based on purified solidol. They normalize the processes in the deep layers of the epidermis.
• Ointments with salicylic acid work as keratolytics. They soften and exfoliate the scales.
• Products that contain zinc oxide . They are dry, reduce inflammation, soothe the skin, to facilitate their protection.
• Funds on the basis of birch tar have anti-itching, keratolytic and regenerative effect.
• Vitamin creams inhibit the growth and proliferation of keratinocytes, and thus to reduce the flaking and the volume of the lesions.
• The drug of the oil .
• Hormonal ointments quickly improve the skin condition of psoriasis, because of the high content of KSG. However, prolonged and uncontrolled use of these tools leads to the atrophy of the skin at the site of application and dysfunction of the adrenal cortex

Unfortunately, external funds are only used to eliminate or reduce the symptoms of the disease, but not cure it. Only the combination of several methods and an individual approach in the treatment of each patient to help achieve a sustained remission.

Alternative medicine

The therapy of psoriasis with traditional methods is only suitable if the disease is not accompanied by pathological changes in the joints (deformity of the fingers, the night of pain), disorders of the General state of the organism (temperature or weakness). The area of the rash should not exceed 3% of the entire surface of the skin.

Treatment of psoriasis at home is not possible, if the disease occurs in a generalized manner.

Here are a couple of very effective recipes to improve the condition of the skin in psoriasis:

1. Grind in a mortar and pestle with fresh flowers of calendula, celandine root, and propolis (10 g), add the Hypericum (20 g) and 1 teaspoon of vegetable oil. Apply the mixture 3 times a day to the lesion.
2. The fat of the stains of tar, wash tar soap. The procedure is best done before you go to sleep, because the tool has a smell that lasts a couple of hours after washing. Start with 10 minutes, then bring the exposure time is 40 minutes.
3. Beat 2 eggs with a half tablespoon of acetic acid and a tablespoon of vegetable oil. Dark pockets before you go to sleep.
4. Snatch celandine with roots, wash, cut and squeeze the juice. The fat at the local level of each site. Treat the whole of the flowering season.
5. Brew 1 tablespoon of dry agrimony 250 ml of boiling water. To insist 1 hour, drain, add water to obtain the initial volume, take 50 ml before each meal.

Sometimes, the medicinal herbs are much more effective drug therapy, so this treatment have the right to exist. In any case, the tactics of treatment is selected individually by trial and error. But in severe forms and a large area of the lesion, treatment is recommended in a hospital environment.

The most effective of drugs

Quickly get rid of the symptoms with drugs:

1. That includes: medical fat, celandine, birch tar and elecampane. This combination of ingredients has a strong keratolytic and anti-inflammatory effect, facilitating a rapid improvement in the condition of the patient and prolonged remission. The drug hydrates, disinfects, softens and regenerates the affected skin
2. The base ointment betamethasone. It is used for the treatment of psoriatic plaques. It removes the redness, itching, swelling, inflammation, due to the content of the hormone corticosteroid (betamethasone). The drug should be used only as indicated by the specialist, since it has very serious side effects. Prolonged treatment may experience abnormal dryness, burning, and atrophy of the skin.
3. Means on the basis of KSG (methylprednisolone aceponate) is used only in the case of quick progression of the disease. Apply to lesions once a day.

Appropriate treatment is only possible after a complete examination of the patient. It is a long process that, at times, will not give result, so that should be under the constant supervision of a doctor.

Only a specialist can determine the effectiveness of the techniques and to choose the method that will give the patient long-term remission.