Symptoms of Psoriasis:
• Recurring attacks of skin rash symptoms
• Skin rash
• Small red
patches - these gradually expand and become scaly
• Red plaques (red scales)
• Silvery scales
• Skin rash may affect various locations:
• Elbow rash
• Knee rash
• Trunk rash
• Arm rash
• Leg rash
• Scalp rash
• Back rash
• Buttocks rash
• Nail rash
• Armpit rash
• Genital region rash
• Eyebrow rash
• Skin symptoms
• Skin pain
• Skin inflammation
• Skin itching
• Cracked skin
• Skin blisters - common in Pustular psoriasis
• Restricted joint motion
• Emotional distress
• Arthritis - about 10% of cases get arthritis caused by
psoriatic arthritis
• Thickening nails
• Split nails
• Raised pus-filled skin bumps
• Skin redness around pustules
• Stinging skin
• Itching skin
• Burning skin
• Peeling skin
• The patient experiences constitutional signs and symptoms,
such as headache, fever, chills, arthralgia, malaise, anorexia,
and nausea. Within hours, clusters of no follicular, superficial
2- to 3-mm pustules may appear in a generalized pattern. The
most common sites of involvement are the flexural and anogenital
areas
• Pustules may occur on the tongue and subungually, resulting in
dysphagia and nail shedding, respectively. These pustules
coalesce within 1 day to form lakes of pus that dry and
desquamate in sheets, leaving behind a smooth erythematous
surface on which new crops of pustules may appear. These
episodes of pustulation may occur for days to weeks, thereby
causing the patient severe discomfort and exhaustion.
• A telogen effluvium type of hair loss may develop in 2-3
months.
• In erythrodermic psoriasis, most of the skin surface is
involved with redness and scaling.
• Increased risk of developing psoriasis
• Skin lesions - mainly on elbows, knees and scalp
• Skin patches - raised, red, scaly
• Thick flaky white skin patches
• Itchy skin lesions
• Dry skin patches
• Loose silvery scales
• Bleeding skin patches
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