A Cure for Psoriasis: Light therapy
Natural sunlight can have a positive effect and it can even regarded as a natural treatment for psoriasis. 80% of patients who have been exposed to sunlight improve their psoriasis symptoms. This fact led to the development of therapies for psoriasis with the use of ultraviolet radiation. But before we learn thoroughly about the methods used for light treatment of psoriasis, let’s first talk about what is Psoriasis and try to understand the causes behind it.
What is Psoriasis?
Psoriasis is a fairly common skin disease. It is estimated that suffer from it the 1-2% of the general population – more than 120 million people – worldwide.
While psoriasis occurs most frequently between the ages of 15 and 35 years, there are many cases that involve younger or older people.
In fact, 10-15% of patients with psoriasis are children under the age of 10 years, and many cases recorded in people aged over 40 years.
Psoriasis affects both gendres equally and is not a contagious disease. Contrary to what many believe, you can not ‘catch’ psoriasis by touching the skin or the clothes of a patient nor the outbreak is a result of a poor personal hygiene.
Instead, the flare up is a resultant of a combination of factors and especially the hereditary predisposition to impaired functioning of the immune system and cells of the skin.