Medicines for psoriasis | Medicines against skin diseases

Medicines for psoriasis

Psoriasis is a rather rare disease, but it can cause severe discomfort to patients. Similar to neurodermatitis, there are fewer tablets than drugs for the skin disease, but rather creams or lotions that can be applied and thus alleviate the symptoms of the disease. However, a severe course of the disease or an acute episode may force the patient to use tablets as medication against the skin disease in order to improve or even eliminate the symptoms.

For example, the patient can take so-called retinoids. This is a variant of vitamin A, which ensures that the cells of the skin do not divide as often, which in turn means that the patient has less psoriasis. However, these drugs against the skin disease also ensure that other cells in the body cannot divide adequately, which is why it is extremely important that a pregnancy is ruled out during the entire period of treatment.

Otherwise malformations or loss of pregnancy (abortion) can occur. In particularly serious cases, a patient may need a therapy in which the medication for the skin disease suppresses the immune system. These drugs are also called immunosuppressive drugs.

These drugs for the skin disease psoriasis are only used when the patient has a particularly severe relapse and all other therapy options are exhausted. A new therapeutic option in the field of psoriasis are the so-called biologicals. These drugs for the skin disease imitate the structure of the body’s own building materials and thus prevent a major inflammation during a relapse. Overall, with all these drugs for the skin disease, personal hygiene with lotions and ointments remains essential. It is therefore important that patients with psoriasis take great care of themselves and their skin and do not rely on a miracle cure through medication, because psoriasis remains an incurable disease.

General medication for skin diseases (especially cortisone)

In general, there are many different medications for skin diseases and which drug is suitable for the respective disease must usually be determined by a dermatologist (dermatologist). A very common medication for skin diseases that cause dry and itchy skin is a cream or lotion containing linoleic acid.Linoleic acid is a fatty acid that provides the skin with a great deal of moisture and ensures that the skin remains supple over a long period of time. As a result, the skin itches less.

Creams with evening primrose oil are also popular for itchy skin. If a patient suffers from a fungal infection, medication against the skin disease helps to effectively combat the fungus and ensure that it cannot multiply any further in the skin. So-called antimycotics, i.e. medications that work against the fungus, are suitable here.

One of the most common medications against skin diseases, which is used for various purposes, is cortisone. With the Kortison it concerns a normally naturally occurring steroid hormone, which humans can produce themselves. However, it is also used as a medicine against skin diseases and can be used and taken in a variety of ways.

On the one hand there are different creams and lotions containing cortisone, on the other hand there are also tablets which are used as medication against skin diseases. For example, cortisone is used in patients with psoriasis, neurodermatitis or eczema. The decisive factor here is that cortisone can, among other things, ensure that the immune system no longer reacts so strongly.

This means that skin diseases such as psoriasis, for example, no longer have all too severe attacks but are milder. Furthermore, cortisone has a very anti-inflammatory effect. This means that the inflammation of the skin, which can lead to severe itching in the case of neurodermatitis or psoriasis, is no longer so pronounced.

Accordingly, cortisone as a drug against skin diseases ensures above all that the patient feels better with his or her skin disease and that, if an acute episode occurs, the patient has a drug at hand that helps to make the episode more bearable. Nevertheless, it is important to know that although cortisone as a medication for skin diseases improves the patients’ symptoms and is therefore very popular, it cannot cure the actual disease. Although the symptoms of the disease are suppressed, the actual disease remains.

However, cortisone is also very popular as a drug against skin diseases called allergic reactions. Such allergic reactions can occur after a bee sting, for example. Or the patient has worn nickel-containing jewelry and did not tolerate it.

In this case the patient can either apply a cream containing cortisone or take it in a tablet containing cortisone. Thus, cortisone is a general medication against skin diseases, which can be used for different purposes depending on the dosage and the application.