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If you have psoriasis and allergies, maybe you've wondered if your allergy flares make your skin condition worse.

There's no need to guess: Doctors and researchers haven't found links between the two problems. Here, four experts break down both conditions and explain what can trigger them.

Although psoriasis and allergies both involve your immune system, the causes for them aren't related.

Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease. That means your body's immune system wrongly attacks some of its own healthy cells.

An allergy happens when your immune system has a severe reaction to something that most people don't have a problem with, like pollen, pet dander, or certain foods.

Some people confuse psoriasis for allergies before they visit the doctor, because both conditions can cause itchy, red skin.

A lot of people come in thinking they have allergic skin problems and when I see them, they've got psoriasis, says Clifford Bassett, MD, an allergist and immunologist in New York City. "If you suspect it's one thing, it could be something else.

So, get checked by a dermatologist if your skin itches or flakes, he says.

If you have psoriasis, stress may be partly to blame when the disease first appears and when it flares. Stress can also make your allergies act up.

When you're having an allergic reaction, your body is working hard, says Julie Pena, MD, a dermatologist in private practice in Nashville. It's trying to fight something. When your body is going through stressful events, it alters the immune system. We know that stress can cause psoriasis to flare, [even] the internal stress of what your body is going through.

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Treatment of Plaque Psoriasis Taking Big Steps Forward Part 2
While the treatment options for plaque psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis have grown in recent years there is still much work to be done in the field to help patients through long stretches of care.

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Epic Length Knife Picking at Psoriasis Scales
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Old fashioned Psoriasis Scrape and moisturizing
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Andrew Gosses daily battle with psoriasis came to a breaking point when he awoke one morning eight years ago.

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Andrew Gosses life changed dramatically with the development of new treatments for psoriasis, a disease he has suffered since age 17.

He awoke with his pyjamas and socks stuck to him due to the bleeding and oozing from the lesions that covered much of his body.

It had been another restless night of uncontrollable itching and pain, and the strength hed always mustered to clean himself up, apply ointments and prepare for the day ahead failed him.

At 34 years old, I woke up one morning and my wife knew there was something extra wrong. She has always known me with psoriasis. She was always there, very supportive, and I was slumped over on the bed, Gosse said.

She asked what was wrong. I turned around in tears and I said, Im sick of being alive. I was done.

Ive never really contemplated suicide, but there are so many people in this country who have committed suicide because of psoriasis.

According to the Living Well With Psoriasis website, psoriasis is a skin disorder in which skin cells multiply up to 10 times faster than normal. As cells reach the skins surface and die, their sheer volume causes raised, red patches called plaques to develop. These plaques are often covered with silvery-white scales.

Psoriasis affects about one million people in Canada. It is a chronic, autoimmune condition, which means the bodys immune system isnt responding as it should to healthy body tissue.

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Psoriasis patients buoyed by new treatments

Newfoundland and Labrador likely has one of the highest prevalence of psoriasis in the world, says Dr. Wayne Gulliver, professor of medicine and dermatology at Memorial University.

Among the 11 dermatologists who practice here, weve seen about 10,000 patients, which is about two per cent of the population, Gulliver said.

Around the world they say the prevalence is two per cent, and Newfoundland and Labrador is probably four to five per cent because we probably havent seen every patient yet. Weve only seen half of them. And we see a lot of quite severe psoriasis and we see lots of patients with the associated illnesses linked to psoriasis like arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol.

Gulliver noted there have been a number of genes discovered linked to psoriasis, and a theory is that one of those genes produces a protein that is important in fighting tuberculosis (TB).

Our theory is that back in the 1920s we had a lot of TBhere, so the question is, did having psoriasis give you a survival advantage to fight tuberculosis? Gulliver said. We know that patients with psoriasis certainly are resistant to certain types of infection. One of my colleagues from Spain just wrote a paper he does quote this particular theory in that.

Gulliver notes that while they havent reached the point where 100 per cent of patients are having 100 per cent clear skin, the new treatments available are helping reach that goal.

Earlier this month, Health Canada approved a new biologic (injectable) treatment for psoriasis called Cosentyx which is making waves.

Theres a whole bunch of new drugs in the pipeline. Theres actually two other drugs in this class that are under study, Gulliver said. For the psoriasis patient, its not if we are going to get them better, its when we are going to get them better, and the majority of patients should be able to have excellent control of their condition. Did we think wed see it? We all hoped for it and the reality is certainly coming through for us.

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