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Anthralin for Psoriasis

Anthralin is a synthetic compound that is used for severe psoriasis. This will help people with psoriasis stable plaque type.

Moreover, acute guttate psoriasis, characterized by small pink macules or discolored spots on the skin that look like drops of paint, do not respond well to such treatment.

There are two ways of using anthralin. The first is called the Ingram regime that takes place in a hospital or day care center. This method combines anthralin paste, a coal tar bath and ultraviolet irradiation for the treatment of extensive areas of psoriasis.

A thick paste is first applied to the affected areas and left for hours before the patient is irradiated with ultraviolet light and bathed coal tar. This procedure usually takes three weeks to heal plates in 20 days. The symptoms disappear within several months to a year.

For who prefer to be treated at home, the same scheme can be used. After anthralin paste is applied, the whole body is dust with talcum powder or cornstarch to keep anthralin in place.

The paste is left on the skin for four hours during the night. Then the pulp is removed with a light oil and the person can shower afterwards. This makes the lesions disappear in three to six months.

Another variant of anthralin treatment can be done at home. Call Contact Anthralin Therapy, or SCAT brief, this involves the treatment of skin for a much shorter period of time starting with low concentrations of anthralin.

In this method, the paste is left in the skin 10 minutes to an hour and can help patients with localized areas of psoriasis

Compared with other methods, the topical use of anthralin is generally insurance. There are, however, two common side effects: skin irritation and staining. People react differently to anthralin. Some can not tolerate low doses, while others respond well to high doses.

To avoid burning in normal skin, careful supervision of a physician is needed in the system Ingram. The risk of skin irritation is reduced with the SCAT method that uses less irritating formulations of anthralin and is the treatment of choice for outpatients.

"Main problem anthralin is its tendency to burn and irritate normal skin. In a hospital, this is prevented by applying the paste and protection of the surrounding skin with a border of Vaseline. At home it is difficult to do with security and the recommended regimen for ambulatory use the contact method shortly. Here the anthralin comes into contact with the skin for a maximum of only 30 minutes, during which they can penetrate the epidermis of a psoriatic plaque abnormal, but epidermis not normal healthy skin, hence it is psoriasis, but prevents burning and irritation, "wrote Dr. SM go, clinical assistant department of dermatology at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital in the British Medical Journal.

"Compliance is excellent because most patients do not have to keep the cream for over half an hour a day before your bath or shower. Provided that the precautions are observed this is one of the most useful outpatient treatment, "Going said. (Next: Treating anthralin stains.)

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