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What You Need to Know About Psoriasis
So let's start with the basics. What is psoriasis?
Well, to put it clinically, it's an auto-immune disease.
Genetic in
nature, it manifests itself in the joints and the skin.
When skin cells reproduce too quickly it creates the most common
type of psoriasis, plaque psoriasis. Anyone with normal skin will find
it has two layers: skin cells are made in the dermis layer, and they
transfer to the surface of the skin through the epidermis.
It's a
constant cycle of renewal where mature skin cells die and replaced
with new ones. The process takes about a month. If someone has
psoriasis however the skin takes a different amount of time to renew.
Psoriasis means that there's an imbalance created in the skin
renewal system. The new cells are replicated at a rate 10 times more
quickly than they do in someone who doesn't have the disease. The
skin on the surface doesn't have the same increased rate of shedding
the dead skin, so new skin cells with nowhere else to go stay beneath
the surface creating thick red patches that are visible. The plaques