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Finding Alternative Therapy for Psoriasis
This is the fourth installment in the ongoing series of articles on “The Heartbreak of Psoriasis”.
Psoriasis (sore-EYE-ah-sis) is a medical condition that occurs when skin cells grow too quickly. Faulty signals in the immune system cause new skin cells to form in days rather than weeks. The body does not shed these excess skin cells, so the cells pile up on the surface of the skin and lesions form.
Psoriasis is complex, scientists are still studying what happens when psoriasis develops. We know that the person’s immune system and genes play key roles. In studying the immune system, scientists discovered that when a person has psoriasis, the T cells (a type of white blood cell that fights unwanted invaders such as bacteria and viruses) mistakenly trigger a reaction in the skin cells. This is why you may hear psoriasis referred to as a “T cell-mediated disease”, as we discussed this in our previous article.
Current treatment for psoriasis still places strong emphasis on attacking the symptoms (skin) rather than the cause (immune system). One of the most widely adopted treatment for psoriasis is to use steroids.
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