Psoriasis and nutrition

Psoriasis and Nutrition!

What is psoriasis?
Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory disease of the skin, mostly characterized by frequent relapses alternated with periodic improvements and sometimes persistent remissions. For some time now it is known that psoriasis has a multifactorial origin, i.e. it is caused by the association of multiple factors including:

• A genetic predisposition
• Some environmental components, such as infections, psycho-physical stress
• Lifestyle
•  Excessive body weight (the extra kgs in fact have a crucial importance both on the effectiveness of the therapy administered for psoriasis, and on the healing of skin lesions, therefore psoriasis and nutrition to be closely related)

In many cases in fact psoriasis, hence its symptomatology foresees that the plaques literally “come and go”; in fact there are periods in which the plaques tend to worsen, sometimes they attenuate or disappear altogether, returning after weeks or months of distance in the same points or in different points.

Psoriasis is commonly considered a disease that affects only the skin and the joints, but in reality it is a pathology of systemic type characterized by a high inflammatory activity, consequently the inflammation may in some cases also involve other areas such as the intestine, liver, heart and contributes to an increase in the risk of cardiovascular diseases.

Psoriasis and Nutrition

Recent studies tell us at this moment in time that the body weight of a patient with psoriasis affects both the choice of therapy and its effectiveness. While some drugs are administered at fixed dosage, for others the dose should be calculated on the basis of the body weight for which the dose of the drug will increase with the increase of the body weight, and in this way there is the risk of major side effects.

It was also shown that overweight affects negatively reducing the effectiveness of the drugs.  It therefore shows that weight loss may have beneficial effects such as reducing the symptoms of psoriasis and improving the effectiveness of systemic therapies of psoriasis.

Psoriasis and Nutrition 
Therefore we cannot say that the food supply directly affects the appearance of psoriasis but we can certainly say that a correct lifestyle can contribute to a reduction in the severity of the disease, reduce the occurrence of concomitant illnesses and increase the effectiveness of systemic therapies and reduce the relapsing frequency.

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