What Exactly Is Psoriasis? Psoriasis is a skin condition in which skin cells proliferate up to ten times faster than usual. This causes the skin to develop rough red patches covered in white scales. They can form everywhere, but mostly they appear on the scalp, elbows, knees, and lower back.
Achieve friendship between psoriasis and Sun Psoriasis is multi-organ level, progressive autoimmune disorder of the skin where the skill cell turnover time reduces, resulting in the formation of the progeny cells that are dissimilar, less identical and carry less to no functional benefit to the skin. Since the origin or the exact trigger of the […]
Those who feel ‘paradise lost’ need not worry too much about the loss of paradise, the paradise can be regained easily with Verdura Melagain cream. The phrase ‘paradise’ herein refers to loss of skin pigment due to the autoimmune disease called Vitiligo which is popularly referred as leukoderma. The achromic skin devoid of the pigment […]
Psoralens are medicines made from plants. They make your skin more sensitive to light. This allows the deeply penetrating UVA band of light to work on the skin. Mechanism of action Psoralens boost the amount of ultraviolet light your skin absorbs. This lets the light into your skin. The ultraviolet radiation helps treat severe skin diseases like psoriasis, vitiligo […]
PUVA is an acronym. The P stands for psoralen, the U for ultra, the V for violet, and the A for that portion of the solar spectrum between 320 and 400 nanometers in wavelength. Psoralens are chemicals found in certain plants that have the ability to absorb ultraviolet light in the UVA portion of the […]
Pigmentation refers to the coloring of the skin. Melanin is the pigment responsible for skin color. Melanin acts as a protective barrier against the harmful effects of ultraviolet (UV) rays. Melanin offers antioxidant activity by scavenging for reactive oxygen species produced via UV. What happens if you don’t have enough melanin? Melanin in excess – Hyperpigmentation […]
Melanin is a skin pigment that not only gives colour to the skin also protects skin cells from UVB radiation damage, reducing the risk of folate depletion, dermal degradation and increased risk of malignant melanoma, a cancer of melanocytes (melanin cells) and wholly creates a protective layer from the Sun/UV rays. A condition where melanin is scarcely found in skin […]
The colour of human skin depends mainly on pigments present in the skin and blood flow of the skin. The most important pigment is Melanin which is synthesized by melanocyte cells. The melanosome of melanocyte chiefly synthesize the melanin. Melanogenesis Melanin synthesis is influenced by Constitutional skin colour U-V radiation Hormone Vitiligo Vitiligo is a […]