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Dermatology Associates of Mid Ohio is your one-stop for executing a plan to live your life without the struggles of psoriasis. If you live in the Mansfield, Marion, or Bucyrus regions of Ohio, we can’t wait to meet you and help you through the journey of gaining soft, touchable skin.
Psoriasis affects 2-4% of the population in the U.S, regardless of race or gender. It can often be challenging to distinguish between psoriasis and other skin conditions like eczema. You may ask yourself, what’s the difference, and how can I find help? You’ve come to the right place. Our Dermatology Associates of Mid Ohio team has a wealth of experience treating chronic skin conditions.
If you’re noticing inflamed skin characterized by red, thick patches that often feel scaly, you may have one of several subtypes of psoriasis. The skin will feature various signs such as itching, peeling, painful fissures, and a leathery appearance. Since psoriasis is an immune-mediated inflammatory disease, it is triggered by an irregular response from the immune system. Genetics is the most common cause of psoriasis, but elements of your environment or lifestyle can also influence it. There are recommended steroid creams and ointments that we can commonly explore with our patients to help treat mild to moderate cases in most body areas. Combined with a health-focused lifestyle, these will slow down the production of skin cells and assist with reducing redness, inflammation, and itching.
Dermatology Associates of Mid-Ohio’s doctors are happy to help relieve the symptoms of psoriasis for our patients in the Mansfield, Marion, and Bucyrus regions. We recommend that our patients reduce the environments they surround themselves with that could trigger an outbreak. These places could include swimming pools, substantial exposure to sunburn, and surroundings where smoke inhalation and alcohol are consumed. We treat every case individually and with our patient-first approach to develop a treatment plan that accounts for your needs.
This type of psoriasis usually affects children, teenagers, and young adults. Its typical symptoms are red, scaly, raindrop-shaped spots on the skin, usually over the abdomen, arms, legs and scalp. It often appears after a bacterial infection, such as strep throat. It can often clear up on its own without treatment.
The typical symptoms of pustular psoriasis are pus-filled blisters on the skin. The blisters usually dry up, turn brown, become scaly and peel off. The lesions typically occur on the hands and feet.
Symptoms include red and scaly skin over large areas of the body. This condition can evolve from other forms of psoriasis or be triggered by psoriasis treatment. It can also be triggered by withdrawal from drugs such as corticosteroids (often taken for diseases such as asthma).
In people with this condition, dry and bright red patches appear in skin folds, for instance, under the breasts, armpits, or genitals. This type of psoriasis can be exacerbated by obesity.
Infected pores that are blocked beneath the skin can become painful and are often caused by hormonal shifts.
