PSORIASISGUIDE

Our skin is regularly renewed through the formation of new skin cells. The process of forming a new skin cell, transporting it to the epidermis and sloughing it off takes about five to six weeks. The level of scaling that occurs when a skin cell detaches from the skin is minimal since it occurs in such small quantities and over such a long period of time. The immune system failure in the body that occurs during psoriasis mobilizes the white blood cells, our defense cells within the body, to cause chronic inflammation directed against the skin cells. In other words, the white blood cells consider the body's own cells to be foreign and attack them. This condition is called autoimmunity and results in diseases such as psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, which are autoimmune diseases. Instead of the usual five to six weeks required for the renewal process, skin cells are replaced about every four days. As a result of this process the skin has insufficient time to mature and thick plaque-..

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