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Treating Psoriasis on Your Scalp
If you suffer from psoriasis, I’m sure you would completely agree with me when I say that psoriasis stinks! The red dry skin, itching, and flaking are not pleasant to deal with on a daily basis, especially if the psoriasis is in a visible part of your body like your scalp. Luckily, there are a few types of scalp psoriasis treatment available. There are also a few types of all natural scalp psoriasis treatment available. On this page, we will discuss some alternatives so you can choose a good scalp psoriasis treatment. First, though, it is important that you know exactly what psoriasis is and what causes it.
So what is psoriasis?
Psoriasis is an unceasing skin condition in which patches of skin anywhere on your body become red, flaky, scaly, and itchy. Between 1% and 3% of people in the world suffer from psoriasis. The most common type of psoriasis is called chronic plaque psoriasis.
The normal skin cell life cycle is about 30 days, whereas in a person who has a psoriasis, the skin cell life cycle is only 3 to 6 days! This is because the T-cells (a type of white blood cell, integral part of the immune system) attack the skin cells, causing them to develop at a much faster rate. This excess skin has nowhere to go but to the surface, resulting in the scaly rash-like appearance on the skin.
So what is a good scalp psoriasis treatment?
Gels, lotions, and other solutions are good to use a scalp psoriasis treatment, since they are easier to apply to affected areas than ointments and creams. Ointments and creams tend to leave an oily appearance to and are harder to wash out of the hair too, so try to stay away from them.
Doctors will often prescribe a steroid based gel as a scalp psoriasis treatment. These work well; however, the effect of steroids on the skin tends to wear off through excessive use, so you should stay away from steroids as well.
Doctors may also prescribe some sort of pills or injections as a scalp psoriasis treatment, but if you have ever tried these, you would know that they are not cheap, they do not work 100% of the time, and they often have negative side-effects. But give them a try, as they may work for you.
Treating your scalp psoriasis with hydroxytyrosol – an olive polyphenol.
Recent discovery suggested that there is another way to treat scalp psoriasis. It does not involve the use of any gel, ointment or cream on the scalp. Instead, it address the problem from your internal system. By sticking to a regular supplementation of hydroxytyrosol – a natural polyphenol from olive – dramatic improvements can be seen. See picture below:
Results after 5 weeks.
By reading this article, you should now have a good understanding of what scalp psoriasis is and how you can treat it with conventional therapy. You are also introduced to the effective results a new alternative treatment with hydroxytyrosol found in OLIVENOL livin’.
What happens when the body’s defence system turns against its own components?
(This article appeared in Star Health on January 17, 2010)
SUFFERERS of lupus, eczema, psoriasis, allergy dermatitis, psoriatic arthritis, and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have different, yet related, conditions. This article will explain how diseases that are so different share a common thread.
In order to do this, you need to understand the origin of these diseases.
Each is a chronic disease that manifests as inflammation of a particular organ. Treatment of these diseases is typically focused on relieving the symptoms of the affected organs, e.g. skin and joints.
It may surprise some of you to learn that the symptoms of skin rash, skin plaques, skin lesion, inflamed joints, and frozen shoulders are actually related and have something in common.
Psoriasis is thought to be an autoimmune disorder.Each of the diseases listed occurs as a result of hypersensitivity of the human immune system to external substances (allergies, dermatitis, and eczema) or reaction to normal body tissues (psoriasis, lupus, and RA).
What is the immune system?
Continue reading What happens when the body’s defence system turns against its own components?
Understanding Autoimmune Disorder
Help! My Immune System Is Attacking Itself
(click for more information about autoimmune disorder)
Living with Psoriasis: Tips for Family and Friends
Many people think of psoriasis as just a skin disease. Sure, it may be itchy and uncomfortable. But how bad could living with psoriasis really be?
Yet while psoriasis symptoms may be on the skin, psoriasis is no superficial condition. Psoriasis can have a devastating effect on every aspect of a person’s life. It can affect your relationships, your sense of self, your romantic life, your job, and your finances.
Despite all the suffering, too many people living with psoriasis aren’t getting help. Living with psoriasis can be tough — not just for the person with the diagnosis, but for his or her loved ones too. It’s a condition that can affect entire families, both emotionally and sometimes financially.
If you have a friend or family member with psoriasis, you may want to help but don’t know where to start.
Here are some useful tips.
Continue reading Living with Psoriasis: Tips for Family and Friends
Living with Psoriasis – Blogging Project (Photo Update 1)
A few months ago, we invited psoriasis sufferers to join a programme to document the efficacy of OLIVENOL livin’ on their psoriasis condition. Ten people signed up and are keeping online journals of their condition on blogs. You can read their blogs using this link: Living with Psoriasis.
So far, about 7 out of the 10 have reported positive results after being on the programme for a couple of weeks. Quiet frankly, we are encouraged with the results so far. We like what we see. Here are some photo updates, showing their conditions – before and after:
Continue reading Living with Psoriasis – Blogging Project (Photo Update 1)
Dr Allan KC Yee, 1951 to 2009: A Champion for Psoriasis Sufferers
Psoriasis sufferers in Malaysia lost a good friend. Dermatologist Dr Allan Yee Kim Chye, suddenly collapsed of a heart attack on Sept 16, 2009.
Allan will be missed by many. His contribution to Psoriasis community in Malaysia is significant. He was instrumental in the set up of the Psoriasis Association of Malaysia, the only organised psoriasis support group, and served as it’s advisor.
Unlike other doctors, Allan refused to give up on finding a solution for this disease. Continue reading Dr Allan KC Yee, 1951 to 2009: A Champion for Psoriasis Sufferers
Living with Psoriasis on OLIVENOL livin’
http://olivenol-livin.blogspot.com/
A life and Alive with Psoriasis
A group of Proriasis sufferers from all walks of life, representing a cross section of social economic background are publicly documenting 3 months of their lives in their respective blogs.
We first publicized this project on our blog here.
If you are a fellow sufferer, a family member of another sufferer, a healthcare professional with interest in Psoriasis, social worker or are involved in Psoriasis support group, follow their progress on this consolidated blog above.
(Note: Click your mouse in the P-ond to feed those Pfishes their OLIVENOL livin’)
Is there a Cure for Psoriasis?
This is Article FIVE in our series on “The Heartbreak of Psoriasis”.
It may be strange for a company marketing OLIVENOL livin’ – a product aimed at psoriasis sufferers – to say this. Unfortunately, there is NO psoriasis cure but there are psoriasis treatments. It is that simple.
Anybody claiming to have a psoriasis cure is misleading and is not able to substantiate with medical evidence. Nothing you do causes psoriasis, it is also that simple.
A psoriasis diet will not magically cure psoriasis, neither will steroids or powerful vitamin derivative type drugs that alter your immune system.
In this article, we offer an unequivocal answer to this single question as we receive many hundreds of emails on our website each month asking us for a psoriasis cure.
Continue reading Is there a Cure for Psoriasis?
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