Topics about Psoriasis Treatments

1-PHOTO-THERAPY
2-THE STRESS
3-THE FEEDING

PHOTOTHERAPY : Ultraviolet Beams

The positive effects of the ultraviolet beams (UVB) are changing the sick people life with psoriasis. The treatment with ultraviolet beams was employed for first time in Sweden by professor Gunnar Swanbeck, one of the most noted dermatology professors in whole the world and an internationally acknowledge authority in this topic and in the psoriasis treatment. For more than twenty years the Swedish hospitals have used and studied this therapy. Certainly, it does NOT seem that it is harmful nothing at all, especially in the serious psoriasis. The possibility to use units of UVB beams at home has allowed the application of this treatment with minimum interferences in the normal life.

In many European countries its popularity is growing, since it satisfies the patients necessities that look for a practical treatment, becoming the most common therapy to treat psoriasis in many medical centres.

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THE STRESS AND THE SKIN

It can be defined the term stress as the group of behavioural, physiologic and biochemical answers face to the perception of a lived event, evaluated as threatening or noxious.

It is focused in a same event and it can be perceived in different ways for different individuals, and it is the subjective perception as threat or challenge, what allows a positive or negative evaluation. If the stimulus is perceived as challenge it allows the fellow to act and to face which is accompanied of pleasant emotions and the necessary forces are valued to face it. When it is lived as a threat, the fellow values only the noxious potential of the stimulus, being the individual in defenceless situation, who feels himself helpless to avoid the adverse stimulus. The psychological characteristics, as personality and confrontation style can modulate the perception of external stimuli, influencing thus in the physiologic answer, when the stimuli are lived as threatening a certain answer kind is unchained at level of nervous system.

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THE FEEDING

a - The foods

The foods in the psoriasis sick people have a very important place. Although the traditional medicine has not given it a lot of importance, the same patient is aware that many foods worsen his illness, specially if he consumes them permanently, although he does not know their effects. Here we try to give you a guide and orientation about which harm and which benefit you. And although his doctor tell you that the feeding doesn't have a lot of importance, put in practice these recommendations that will not surpass you health and you will see the results in a short time. What you should do without feeling stress, is to acquire good nutritious habits, and being very follower of which foods cause you irritation in the skin, and removing them definitively from your daily diet.

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