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How To Treat Swollen, Pus Filled And Swollen Psoriasis?
I m suffering from psoriasis for the past 13 years. .now 24 years old..til date my psoriasis were dry patchy wounds but now its has appeared with pus formation, swollen and it pains...earlier it use to just itch but now it pains and psoriasis is fully on my body even on my face..m tensed seriously...please help :(
Fri, 14 Mar 2014
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I would keep a possibility of Acute pustular psoriasis/Unstable psoriasis.
If I was your treating doctor I would have asked you to get hospitalized as acute pustular psoriasis is highly unstable and requires systemic antipsoriatic agents in addition to general management like fluid electrolyte balance, intake output charting, Blood pressure, temperature, pulse charting etc.
Psoriasis which was initially stable and well controlled can become unstable and pustular because of causes like topical irritant therapies like coal tar, steroid withdrawal, infections, stress, drugs etc
Systemic antipsoriatic agents that can be given in pustular psoriasis are: Methotrexate, acitretin, systemic corticosteroids (short course).
regards
I would keep a possibility of Acute pustular psoriasis/Unstable psoriasis.
If I was your treating doctor I would have asked you to get hospitalized as acute pustular psoriasis is highly unstable and requires systemic antipsoriatic agents in addition to general management like fluid electrolyte balance, intake output charting, Blood pressure, temperature, pulse charting etc.
Psoriasis which was initially stable and well controlled can become unstable and pustular because of causes like topical irritant therapies like coal tar, steroid withdrawal, infections, stress, drugs etc
Systemic antipsoriatic agents that can be given in pustular psoriasis are: Methotrexate, acitretin, systemic corticosteroids (short course).
regards
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