The Causes of Psoriasis

Psoriasis is a terrible condition. Both my children and I seem to be prone to getting it.
As it turns out there are some very definite triggers for painful outbreaks and here is a rundown of what they are…
• Skin abrasions from shaving
• Rug burns
• Small cuts
• Cold weather
• Damp or humid weather
• Cloudy weather
• Streptococcal or other simple infections – even just a sore throat can trigger your immune system to go wild
• Sunburn
• Taking aspirin
• Taking beta blocker drugs to combat high blood pressure
• Taking anti-malarial drugs or shot
• Taking lithium for manic depression
• Emotional stress including being too sad or too happy – extremes of emotion whether good or bad can cause stress in the body that can cause an outbreak
Psoriasis is one of those chronic conditions that is hard to cure so it is always hard to decide if you should go the natural route for a cure or stick with the greasy steroid creams that are usually prescribed for it.
As with any medical condition or complaint, there are many different ways of treating or dealing with psoriasis, some of which are dependent on pharmaceutical drugs whilst others are completely natural.
And of course, it almost always follows that treating any medical condition naturally is the best way of doing things if such treatments are going to be appropriate and effective.
If you have been recently diagnosed with psoriasis then you should prepare yourself to embark on quite a merry go round of being put on and off different prescribed drugs and creams.
I believe the more you know about these drugs (should you decide to take prescriptions) the better off you will be in general as you will have been more knowledegable about your problems …
In the meantime the treatment for psoriasis that I have found the most effective is to sit myself in the sun and bake away like a big old leathery lizard for a while. I encourage my children to do the same so they do not develop the hard itchy patches of skin associated with the condition.
I have discovered too that diet has a lot to do with whether or not you will experience an outbreak. Yet another way I try and keep this sort of thing under control is by feeding my family a diet rich in avocadoes and fish. This is because these foods are rich in Omega 3 acids that help ward off these types of attacks.
If you have broken out fully in the silvery flaky scales associated with the condition I have also found that applying a bit of the gel from inside the aloe vera plant can also go a long way towards healing the condition.

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Bogus Yeast Infection Cures

You are especially prone to getting yeast infections after you have a pregnancy so I thought it would be worthwhile to write about it for a change.
First of all you need to know that the advice you get on the internet after typing in a search such as 'home remedy – yeast infection' is not always the right advice.
I typed these keywords 'home remedy – yeast infection' into Google and the very first thing that popped up was one of the most dangerous cures for this condition that exists – using BORIC ACID.
Boric acid is a poison that does not belong in your home. Yet you can find home remedies that advise inserting this in your vagina.
Yet another cure I kept seeing was to go on these intolerably long fasts that involved drinking only water and lemon or certain types of juices. As someone who is a little bit familiar with the way the human body works (because I am a medical researcher) I cannot begin to tell you how unhealthy these food deprivation diets are.
The principle behind starving yourself every day is to try and not feed the yeast cells in your body but the problem is that you end up starving YOU as well. Some of these 'yeast elimination' diets have calorie intake rates on them that are so low that NO human being could stick to them for more than a day or two.
By now you can probably tell that I am speaking from very hard won experience.
Of course as I was once a chronic sufferer of these terrible infections you can imagine that I was all over the internet always looking for an alternative to the antibiotics that were causing me to be trapped in a treadmill of antibiotic use and recurrent pain.
In fact, you could say I was just like you.
Now being a medical researcher I knew that doing things like inserting boric acid in your vagina or starving yourself and surviving on only liquids to 'rinse' yeast out of your body was very bad for you. However I could not help but think of all of those women out there who do not know this was bad for you and how much they must be suffering as a result.
Also did you know that going on a juicing fast is also a terrible idea? This is because juices contain sugars that can feed yeast colonies the same way that sugar can.
I guess what I am trying to say here is that you have to be very careful when it comes to seeking out alternative or natural cures as they might not be so good for your yeast infection either.
I can't stress this enough. In order to get rid of yeast infections you need to wipe out the root cause for good.

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