What Makes Your Psoriasis Severe?
Reviewed by Poonam Sachdev on February 18, 2022
Video Transcript
SPEAKER: Psoriasis starts
inside your body
when your immune system starts
attacking healthy skin cells
by mistake.
Usually, new skin cells are made
every few weeks.
But with psoriasis, this gets
sped up to just a few days.
All these extra cells build up
on the surface of your skin
faster than your body can shed
them.
When this happens,
you get itchy sore patches
called plaques on your knees,
elbows, back, scalp,
and other places.
Plaques are usually thick,
raised, and covered
with silvery-white scales.
Your psoriasis is severe when it
covers more than 10%
of your body
or happens on your face, palms,
or soles of your feet.
While there's no cure,
there are treatments that can
help.
For severe psoriasis,
a combination
of different treatments
might work best.