Conventional Psoriasis treatments- Topical treatments, drugs and more

Psoriasis is a manifestation of a disorder in the body's immune system which causes faster skin growth than the normal. As one authority on psoriasis explained, the skin growth process take off at an acceleration of about 7 to 8 times faster than the u...

Ointment and cream treatments for psoriasis abound in health and drugstores, sometimes making it difficult for us to choose which of them are the best cream for psoriasis. In fact, there are classifications for these treatments: Topical treatments f...

Treating psoriasis should be a team effort, the team members varying according to the needs of the person concerned. Treatments need to be acceptable to the individual as well as being effective, so it is important that health-care professionals unders...

The use of ciclosporin reflects the importance of your immune system in the psoriatic process. It is a drug that is used to alter the body’s immune response and hence helps to prevent the rejection of transplants. A transplant patient with psoriasis ...

Methotrexate (MTX) is a drug that acts to stop rapid or excessive cell growth – a ‘cytotoxic’ agent. It stops the rapid turnover of skin cells that cause the typical plaques of psoriasis. Unfortunately, it does not just act on the skin, so care h...

Dovobet is the trade name for a topical treatment that combines a potent steroid with calcipotriol (Dovonex). It is generally used for plaque psoriasis and is initially prescribed for 4 weeks. It appears to work more quickly than Dovonex, but, owing to...

Coconut oil. This is good if your scalp is dry but not necessarily covered with active psoriasis. The coconut oil is solid at room temperature but melts on contact with the skin and is therefore quite greasy; it has a very light but not unpleasant smel...

There can be reasons why creams do not seem to be as effective as they used to be. One is that they might be out of date or have ‘gone off’. Creams do not last for ever, especially once they have been opened, so check with your pharmacist to see wh...

The laser treatment of psoriasis is still being researched and evaluated so is not freely available at present. A few years ago, it looked as though it might prove successful and would become more widely available, but research has not really sugges...

What are his or her qualifications, and how long was the training? • Is he or she a member of a recognised, registered body with a code of practice? • Can he or she give you the name, address and telephone number of this body so you can check? â...

Steroids for psoriasis! What do steroids actually do? Steroids are essentially hormones, and there are many different types with quite different actions. The human body makes its own steroids in the adrenal glands, and these are vital for the body’s...