Psoriasis: A Genetic Disease

The Integumentary is a vast organ system composed of exocrine glands, hair, nails, and the most commonly known organ, the skin. As a large system, it can be susceptible to many different types of diseases, one of these diseases are called Psoriasis. This affects a large portion of the Integumentary system, the skin. Psoriasis are considered to be a widespread, common and recurring disease that can be chronic at times. Psoriasis are defined by its appearance of light silver in color, flaky, rash on many parts of the Epidermis.

This essay explores and reflects on the lived experiences of an elderly patient living with the long-term condition (LTC) of psoriasis. A case study is used to illustrate some of the key features of LTCs and the impact they can have on a patient’s physical, psychological and social state. It is also going to be looking at the effect some of the key features can have on a patients support network or family. In addition it will examine the nurses role in the management of LTCs and the health and social policies that may have an impact on the care received by patient with LTCs.

3). Scratching any of the infected areas can make it more painful, it can make the skin become more infected or even to blister or bleed because of the scabs created from scratching. If you do not treat eczema with any topical steroids or continue to scratch it will cause it to rapidly worsen in such way as it becoming infected, huge blisters intensified itching (Eczema, p. 6). Eczema is widespread, all throughout the world, depending on your surrounding environment or your genetic makeup you can become affected with it. Eczema is painful in such a way of intense itching that can leave to tears in the skin or an infection. There is no way to test for it so there is no way to cure it only ease symptoms. My cousin has eczema when she was only a few months old she would get rashes in on the bends of her knees and under her neck in her fat rolls the doctor would call them hot spots. My aunt could not change detergents or her soap, and the hotter it got outside the worse it would be on her, sometimes it even looked like someone burnt her skin because of how bad it

Psoriasis: This is a common, chronic and recurring skin disorder that changes and alters the life cycle of skin cells. It causes cells to accumulate quickly on the skin surface. The extra cells from the skin forms a thick, itchy, silvery scale and a red patch. It can appear at any part of the body such as the knee, scalp, elbow etc. it is treated with drugs applied to the skin, ingested and with ultraviolet radiation. This disease has affected about 1%-5% of the world population and it is more common to the light skinned people. Psoriasis may persist throughout a person’s life as it comes and goes but it is usually reduced during the summer period when the skin is exposed to ultraviolent radiation and flare ups are common during

Until the early 1980s, psoriasis was believed to be a disease primarily of epidermal keratinocyte proliferation and the cutaneous inflammatory infiltrate to be a secondary event. However, subsequent studies presented evidences that innate as well as adaptive immunity are crucial in the initiation and maintenance of psoriatic plaques. Type 1 and type 17 T lymphocytes secrete respectively (IFN-γ), (IL-2), IL-17, IL-22, in addition to TNF-α and IL6 (Gisondi and Girolomoni 2009).

Background: Plaque psoriasis is a painful autoimmune disease that affects up to 3% of the US population.1 Moderate-to-severe psoriasis can have significant psychological and physiological effects on a person’s health and although psoriasis can be controlled, it cannot be cured, so medications play an important role in reducing related comorbidities and improving patients’ quality of life.2

Which is a chronic skin disease that affects the joints. The patient will have thick white, silvery, and redden patches of skin. These patches are usually located on the elbows, knees, scalp, hands, and lower back. The doctor told me there is no cure for psoriasis, but there are treatments to control the psoriasis. The treatments are creams with steroids, which slow the rapid growth of cells in that effected area.

40 patients were reported to have Psoriasis (skin rash) within their peripheral extremities. The skin rash appear to be red with pus, liquid oozing from the rash (looking like a zombie rash). Each patients are also reports that their extremities itch, and sometime even inflamed.

Psoriasis often occurs on the elbows, knees or trunk. The scalp is also a common place; 50% of patients with any sort of psoriasis have it on their scalp.

Psoriasis is as the author of the article “Update on Psoriasis and its Management” states, a genetically inherited chronic inflammatory

Although the symptoms of atopic dermatitis vary from person to person, the most common symptoms are dry, itchy, red skin. Typical affected skin areas include the folds of the arms, the back of the knees, wrists, face and hands. Less commonly there may be cracks behind the ears, and various other rashes on any part of the body. Itching is the primary symptoms of this condition.

A psoriasis patient’s skin cells usually grow within days, whereas normally, skin cells can take up to a month to grow. Psoriasis makes the skin look thick with patches of red, white, or silver that are symptomatic of the skin cells that are growing abnormally fast. Psoriasis can cause a stinging or burning feeling in addition to itchiness and appears most commonly on knees and elbows, palms of the hand and soles of the feet, the face, and the lower back. Psoriasis is often exacerbated by stress, sunburns, and scratches. Psoriasis is most common in adults.

The first and most common form is the Plaque Psoriasis. It is an infected area that appears red on the base of the skin and covered by silvery scales. About 80% of patients with the disorder have this type of form. The second form is the Guttate Psoriasis where there are small infected areas are on the trunk, limbs, and scalp. This type of form can be triggered by infections in the upper respiratory such as a sore throat. The third form is called the Pustular Psoriasis where the infected areas will develop noninfectious pus inside blisters on the skin. This is said to be triggered through medication, infections, stress, or exposure to certain chemicals. The fourth form is called the Inverse Psoriasis. This form is caused by irritation such as friction or sweating and will cause the infected area to appear smooth and red in the folds of the skin near the genitals. Lastly, the Erythrodermic Psoriasis form is the most severe among the forms. It appears throughout the body causing reddening and scaling of the skin and can be triggered by severe sunburn or specific medication.

Eczema is a term that does not specify what kind of inflammation is being addressed. It is often used synonymously with dermatitis (inflammation of the skin). The different kinds of eczema depend on what body part is being afflicted. Eczema on hands, of course, affects the hands and is called cheiropompholyx.

Psoriasis was copied from the Greek word psora, which means “to itch” (Jean, 2011). Psoriasis is a chronic, long lasting autoimmune skin disease that disturbs the speed of the growth cycle in skin cells (Stress-Related Disorder Sourcebook, 2016). Normal, healthy skin cells replace dead skin cells every twenty-eight to thirty days (Langley, 2005). Skin is the largest organ in the body. It protects from the environment, regulates body temperature, helps coordinate immune system regulation, function of touch sensations, waterproof, and prevents toxin substances from entering the body (Langley,2010). Psoriasis effects greater than three percent