This skin disease is among the most ancient and unsolved ailments. Numerous methods of treating psoriasis, alas, do not eliminate it completely, but help to achieve a long subsidence of the disease. Since the effects of drugs are exclusively individually, an effective remedy has to be sought experimentally.
Folk treatment of psoriasis
Non -traditional healers - healers of all time - ordered to fight this ailment at the same time outside and inside. How to treat psoriasis? External products used for adults and children:
- creams, ointments;
- lotions;
- shampoos;
- Herbal baths.
Treatment of psoriasis with folk remedies that are taken inside:
- powders, pills, tablets;
- infusions;
- decoctions of medicinal herbs;
- Complex mixtures.
Effective treatment of psoriasis at home is possible subject to such important rules:
- It is necessary to constantly protect the skin, nails from drying with water procedures and moisturizing creams;
- The disease in the initial stage should be treated with light vegetables;
- It is necessary to remove scales, crusts - so the condition of the drugs penetrate deeper into the skin;
- It should be treated to the end, strictly following recipes and all prescriptions;
- There are no need to use several drugs at once, otherwise it is impossible to find out the effectiveness of each of them.
Thanks to the popular folk remedy, vulgar (simple, plaque) psoriasis often retreats - treatment is carried out with activated coal. Sometimes even pathology is given in a drop -shaped form. Coal, absorbing toxins from the body, heals the skin. The tablets chopped into powder (1 tablet per 10 kg of weight) are stirred in water and drunk 1. 5-2 hours before meals. The course of treatment is 1. 5 months. An important condition: you can not drink alcohol, salty, spicy, fatty dishes.
Soda
Sodium bicarbonate is considered a safe tool for suppressing the disease at home. Treatment of psoriasis with soda helps to relieve the severity of inflammation. This food product dries with small ulcerations, stops peeling of the skin. Soda is mixed with boiling water to make a mixture of sour cream consistency, which is applied to the affected places, insulated and hold until the compress cools down.
Herbs
Among the popular medicinal plants are field horsetail, aloe, black elderberry. Treatment of psoriasis with herbs at home has been tested for centuries:
- Turn the fleshy leaves of Aloe (or Kalanchoe) into a gruel and apply to the sore skin in the morning and evening. The treatment is long-1. 5-2 months.
- 2 teaspoons of the flowers of a black elderberry brew 0. 5 l of boiling water, insist, insulation, 1. 5-2 hours. Drink half a glass three times a day after meals.
Solidol
However, many patients argue that solidol is more effective from psoriasis, that is, in its pure form, but without automobile additives. Path areas are covered with a remedy, 10 minutes later they remove and wash the skin with a tar with tar. After every week, the time of daily procedures is increased by 20 minutes, bringing to 1 hour. Treatment lasts 1. 5-3 months.
Birch tar
More often practices the treatment of psoriasis tar in its pure form. They are lubricated with sore spots, then washed off with soap with tar. The initial exhibition of the compress is 10 minutes, after 2 weeks the maximum is 30-40 minutes.
Propolis
It brings to relieve a two-three-month reception inward 0. 5-1 g at any time of the day. More effective treatment with psoriasis by propolis with simultaneous compresses with 10% propolis ointment. You can try to achieve the gradual destruction of painful plaques using the lotions of 10-15% propolis tincture. The product is not toxic, but do not exceed the dosage of drugs.
Treatment of psoriasis with medicines
Modern therapy has a considerable arsenal of drugs that help to resist this disease. Medication treatment of psoriasis is carried out in the complex use of drugs. Unfortunately, the positive effect of many pharmaceuticals is accompanied by negative consequences (an alternative to traditional methods of therapy - homeopathy, which offers safer plant products).
A variety of tablets, ointments, sprays, capsules, injections, droppers have a multilateral and very fast effect:
- remove the severity of the inflammatory process;
- eliminate allergic reactions;
- block autoimmune reactions of the body;
- normalize the process of skin renewal;
- The reproduction of sick cells is suppressed.
Hormonal treatment of psoriasis
The need for drugs containing hormones occurs with a complicated course of the disease, when it is cured with lighter drugs. Hormonal treatment of psoriasis is often the only acceptable with seasonal exacerbations of pathology. Such drugs cannot be used for a long time, since the skin can gradually freeze, and the adrenal glands can fail.
Such drugs can be divided into two groups:
- relatively weak ointments;
- medium -sized drugs;
- potent ointments;
- The most potent ointment.
External
You can try:
- exposure to ultraviolet (blue) lamps, the rays of which cause the decay of affected skin cells;
- External treatment of psoriasis often begins, applying celandine juice or apple cider vinegar to sore spots;
- You can irrigate the skin with a spray gun with a solution of sea or table salt (3 tbsp. Spoons per half liter of water);
- Compresses with a 3% pharmacy solution of hydrogen peroxide diluted in half with water are often effective.
Ointment
Non -hormonal agents are more preferable, since they have much fewer side effects. Although these drugs are treated much longer, the period of remission is longer. So effective ointment from psoriasis does not have to contain hormones. The choice of non -hormonal products is wide.
Treatment of psoriasis with a laser
The apparatus emitting radiation, which is close to sunny ultravioletus, has been widely used in clinics. The laser beam goes to the site with plaques, and under its influence the reproduction of sick skin cells slows down. As a result, the inflammatory process is blocked, and the risk of developing a tumor is reduced. Treatment of psoriasis with a laser is also indicated with lesions of the hairy parts of the body.
Comprehensive treatment
Regardless of what methods of treating psoriasis are chosen by a dermatologist, the maximum effect brings an integrated approach to solving this problem, which suggests:
- use of external funds;
- the use of medicines, vitamins, biologically active additives;
- connection of physiotherapeutic procedures;
- treatment in sanatoriums with mineral waters, mud, leeches;
- The purpose of the diet, therapeutic starvation.