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What is #PSingapore?
PSingapore is a way of showing your support for people with psoriasis, a non-contagious skin disease that affects 2% of our population. Though psoriasis has a funny spelling, there #39;s nothing...

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Hike The AT for Psoriasis Awarenesss
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Published: Tue, October 21, 2014 @ 12:00 a.m.

Q. My husband is disabled by osteoarthritis and psoriatic arthritis. He experienced frequent muscle cramping and was eating extra yellow mustard for relief.

His psoriasis was treated for years by a dermatologist. After a few weeks of taking large amounts of mustard, he noticed his psoriasis was greatly improved.

After his muscles stopped cramping, he stopped eating mustard. His psoriasis started returning. He has now resumed taking mustard this time for psoriasis.

A. Many readers have reported that a teaspoon or two of yellow mustard eases leg cramps, but you are the first to suggest that this condiment might be helpful for psoriasis.

Your story led us to do some digging in the medical literature. A mouse study published in China demonstrated that when mustard seed was fed to rodents, it suppressed psoriasislike inflammation (Journal of Southern Medical University, September 2013). Japanese scientists concluded that the results of their research provide a basis for mustard seed to be used as a promising intervention for psoriasis in the future (Journal of Dermatology, July 2013).

Your husbands experiment with mustard appears to confirm the preliminary research carried out in animals. Thanks for sharing his experience. Perhaps others will benefit from his discovery.

Q. Your column mentioned using pineapple or banana skin as a topical treatment for plantar warts. The treatment of choice (unfortunately not well known among family doctors or even dermatologists) may be the daily topical application of vitamin A.

Vitamin A can be bought in capsules in any drugstore. Puncture a capsule of the vitamin with a sharp needle. Each day, squeeze a drop or two of the vitamin A oil out of the capsule onto the wart and rub it in well.

Dr. Robert Garry reported 100 percent success within five months in 50 consecutive patients (New England Journal of Medicine, Oct. 14, 2004). I likewise had success with this treatment for a very stubborn plantar wart, although mine required applying the vitamin twice a day to get results.

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Q: My husband is disabled by osteoarthritis and psoriatic arthritis. He experienced frequent muscle cramping and was eating extra yellow mustard for relief.

His psoriasis was treated for years by a dermatologist. After a few weeks of taking large amounts of mustard, he noticed his psoriasis was greatly improved.

After his muscles stopped cramping, he stopped eating mustard. His psoriasis started returning. He has now resumed taking mustard this time for psoriasis.

A: Many readers have reported that a teaspoon or two of yellow mustard eases leg cramps, but you are the first to suggest that this condiment might be helpful for psoriasis.

Your story led us to do some digging in the medical literature. A mouse study published in China demonstrated that when mustard seed was fed to rodents, it suppressed psoriasislike inflammation (Journal of Southern Medical University, September 2013). Japanese scientists concluded that the results of their research provide a basis for mustard seed to be used as a promising intervention for psoriasis in the future (Journal of Dermatology, July 2013).

Your husbands experiment with mustard appears to confirm the preliminary research carried out in animals. Thanks for sharing his experience. Perhaps others will benefit from his discovery.

Q: Your column mentioned using pineapple or banana skin as a topical treatment for plantar warts. The treatment of choice (unfortunately not well known among family doctors or even dermatologists) may be the daily topical application of vitamin A.

Vitamin A can be bought in capsules in any drugstore. Puncture a capsule of the vitamin with a sharp needle. Each day, squeeze a drop or two of the vitamin A oil out of the capsule onto the wart and rub it in well.

Dr. Robert Garry reported 100 percent success within five months in 50 consecutive patients (New England Journal of Medicine, Oct. 14, 2004). I likewise had success with this treatment for a very stubborn plantar wart, although mine required applying the vitamin twice a day to get results.

No side effects have been reported. It just requires stubborn persistence.

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My Makeup Routine For Eczema Psoriasis
Hello everybody! I #39;ve always been doing step-by-step makeup tutorials on my blog and one of the most common questions I #39;ve received was whether I #39;ll consider making tutorials on video....

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Natural Ways To Get Rid Of Psoriasis Fast and Easy NOW!
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October 18, 2014

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Patients with moderate to severe psoriasis are also more likely to have uncontrolled hypertension than those not suffering from the common skin condition, according to new research appearing in the October 15 online edition of the journal JAMA Dermatology.

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) in Bethesda, Maryland examined the effect of psoriasis and its severity on blood pressure control among patients diagnosed as having hypertension.

The study authors recruited 1,322 patients with psoriasis and hypertension and 11,977 controls with hypertension but without psoriasis. They discovered a significant positive dose-response relationship between uncontrolled hypertension and psoriasis severity as objectively determined by the affected body surface area, meaning that the likelihood of uncontrolled blood pressure increased along with the severity of the skin condition.

As such, they reported that the likelihood of uncontrolled hypertension was the highest in patients suffering from moderate to severe psoriasis, defined by the researchers as three percent or more of the body surface area affected by the condition. The results held true even when controlled for age, sex, body mass index and other factors, and suggest the need for more effective blood pressure management in psoriasis patients.

Over the last several years, studies have shown that psoriasis, specifically severe psoriasis, is an independent risk factor for a variety of comorbidities, putting patients suffering with this common skin disease at an increased risk for other conditions such as heart attack and stroke, Junko Takeshita, co-first author of the new study, explained in a statement Thursday.

Knowing that psoriasis is tied to other health conditions, its vital that we have a better understanding of the systemic effects it has on other areas of the body so that we can more closely monitor these patients and provide better and preventative care, added Takeshita, a clinical instructor in the Penn Medicine department of dermatology.

For the purposes of the study, the researchers defined uncontrolled hypertension as blood pressure measured as at least 140/90, and examined data from a random sample of psoriasis patients included in a UK-based electronic medical database known as The Health Improvement Network (THIN). Takeshita said that the psoriasis diagnostic code in the THIN database had been validated through several research studies analyzing the condition.

To our knowledge, ours is the first study to evaluate the effect of objectively determined psoriasis severity on blood pressure control, Takeshita said. While the research has found a strong correlation between hypertension and psoriasis, it does not prove whether psoriasis could cause hypertension or whether the opposite is true. However, she noted that this new study is a good launching pad for future studies probing that issue.

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Contact: Katie Delach katie.delach@uphs.upenn.edu 215-349-5964 University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine @PennMedNews

PHILADELPHIA Patients with more severe psoriasis are also more likely to have uncontrolled hypertension, according to new research by a team at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Through a cross-sectional study using information collected from a medical records database, the results provide further evidence of a strong link between psoriasis and hypertension. Full results are now available in JAMA Dermatology.

"Over the last several years, studies have shown that psoriasis, specifically severe psoriasis, is an independent risk factor for a variety of comorbidities, putting patients suffering with this common skin disease at an increased risk for other conditions such as heart attack and stroke," says Junko Takeshita, MD, PhD, clinical instructor in the department of Dermatology at Penn Medicine and co-first author on the study. "Knowing that psoriasis is tied to other health conditions, it's vital that we have a better understanding of the systemic effects it has on other areas of the body so that we can more closely monitor these patients and provide better and preventative care."

Defining uncontrolled hypertension as blood pressure measured as at least 140/90, the researchers found a clear relationship between psoriasis and uncontrolled hypertension in patients with a confirmed diagnosis of psoriasis. Additional finding indicate there is a significant dose-response relationship, meaning that the likelihood of uncontrolled hypertension increases with greater psoriasis severity. Results of the study reveal that the patients with the highest risk of having uncontrolled blood pressure, are those with moderate to severe psoriasis, which is defined as having at least three percent of one's body surface affected by the disease.

Takeshita and colleagues examined data from a random sample of psoriasis patients included in The Health Improvement Network (THIN), an electronic medical database based in the United Kingdom that collects demographic, diagnostic, treatment, and laboratory information from a broad representative sample of the UK population. Takeshita says the psoriasis diagnostic code in the database has been validated through extensive studies looking at the condition.

The researchers concentrated on a specific group within the THIN database called the Incident Health Outcomes and Psoriasis Events (iHOPE) cohort, a random sample of about 9000 patients with a confirmed diagnosis of psoriasis and disease severity classified by their general practitioners using objective measures, specifically body surface area involvement. This permitted a level of analysis not possible in previous studies.

"Most large electronic databases such as THIN do not have information such as body surface area involvement or other direct measures of psoriasis severity, and we usually have to use surrogate measures such as receipt of a treatment that is indicated for more severe psoriasis to define psoriasis severity," Takeshita explains. "The use of surrogate measures to define psoriasis severity is not ideal for multiple reasons. For example, we know that many patients with psoriasis go untreated, so using treatment to define psoriasis severity may incorrectly identify patients who truly have severe disease as having mild disease. Furthermore, when we use treatments to define psoriasis severity, we cannot separate effects of psoriasis itself from potential psoriasis treatment effects on blood pressure control. To our knowledge, ours is the first study to evaluate the effect of objectively determined psoriasis severity on blood pressure control."

Although the work strongly suggests a correlation between hypertension and psoriasis, the cross-sectional nature of the study doesn't allow one important issue to be addressed: the "chicken or egg" question of whether psoriasis may cause hypertension or whether the presence of hypertension contributes to psoriasis. Still, the present study provides an ideal starting point for that next investigative step.

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