Health Boards
Wed-24-10-2012, 16:41 PM
Sorry, but I don't hold any stock in non-medical diagnoses.
I have had too many "holistic" practitioners attempt to prey on me and friends of mine for conditions they claim to be able to cure (strangely though they have never wanted their "treatments" to be subject to actual scientific testing). How he can say that your psoriasis is a result of using the treatments for it is beyond me... I'm sure you hadn't used these treatments prior to it appearing. Diet, primarily dairy, alcohol and citrus fruit can exacerbate psoriasis but I have never heard of red meat and seafood being triggers.
I do use naturally derived creams (ie. not derived from petrochemicals or chemically synthesised) as moisturisers and for bathing as I have a lot of skin sensitivities but that's as far as it goes.
Your psoriasis has absolutely nothing to do with the function/non-function of any of your internal organs, it is a manifestation of a genetic, autoimmune condition in which your immune system (specifically T-helper cells) do not recognise your cells as belonging to you and enroll other inflammatory immune components into the area which causes the redness, flakiness and scaling observed in psoriasis plaques.
A simple liver function test carried out by your doc will confirm or refute his claims. There is no cure yet for psoriasis... We just have to treat it with the medications we have available to us until such a time that a gene therapy or cure is discovered.
I have had too many "holistic" practitioners attempt to prey on me and friends of mine for conditions they claim to be able to cure (strangely though they have never wanted their "treatments" to be subject to actual scientific testing). How he can say that your psoriasis is a result of using the treatments for it is beyond me... I'm sure you hadn't used these treatments prior to it appearing. Diet, primarily dairy, alcohol and citrus fruit can exacerbate psoriasis but I have never heard of red meat and seafood being triggers.
I do use naturally derived creams (ie. not derived from petrochemicals or chemically synthesised) as moisturisers and for bathing as I have a lot of skin sensitivities but that's as far as it goes.
Your psoriasis has absolutely nothing to do with the function/non-function of any of your internal organs, it is a manifestation of a genetic, autoimmune condition in which your immune system (specifically T-helper cells) do not recognise your cells as belonging to you and enroll other inflammatory immune components into the area which causes the redness, flakiness and scaling observed in psoriasis plaques.
A simple liver function test carried out by your doc will confirm or refute his claims. There is no cure yet for psoriasis... We just have to treat it with the medications we have available to us until such a time that a gene therapy or cure is discovered.