By Before you used any alternative medicine for your psoriasis, you need to ask the professional. You can ask to doctor online. Doctoroncall is the website where you can talk to a Malaysian Medical Council registered doctor.
Psoriasis is one of the autoimmune diseases that are caused by your own immune system attacking your healthy skin cells. This disease makes your skin raised, red, and scaly patches. Like all autoimmune disease, there is no cure yet. The medication that exists now served to treat symptoms until you can achieve remission. Hence, every psoriasis patient will easily fall to any advertisements that promise them a cure. You need to be careful about the treatments that are actually an ineffective waste of money and worse, can risk your own health. It is because many people will take advantage of your desperation. You need to know what is the active ingredients in a product.
Is Vicks vapour rub good for psoriasis? Vicks vapour rub is the most common remedies used for cough in children. It is a topical ointment which will not cause you any harm. Vicks vapour rub had become a sensation on the internet. To some people, it sometimes can be helpful but how? What ingredient that it contains to help patient with Psoriasis?
Vicks vapour rub contains menthol, camphor and eucalyptus oil that act as cooling substances. The substances are also topical anaesthetic ingredients that have a soothing effect. They can cool down the itch that Psoriasis patients experience. Vicks vapour rub also contain Thymol which was used to stop bacteria growth in ancient Egypt mummies preservation. Hence, Thymol can eve stops the skin cells growth. Howver, the amount of Thymol in the Vicks product is not enough to make skin flakes disappear.
Other than that, there are inactive ingredients in Vicks vapour rub which are Cedarleaf oil, nutmeg oil, and petrolatum. These oils and petroleum gels act as a moisturizer. As dry skin is one of the triggering factors to outbreaks of psoriasis, so do moisturize your skin all the time. However, Vicks contents are a lightweight moisturizer which needs to be avoided as it does not contain enough emollients. You need to seal your skin in moisture by applying a generous amount of moisturizing cream or ointment after bathing or showering.
You can use Vicks vaporub for psoriasis but it is not good for your psoriasis as it will not help you to attain the remission of the disease. You need to remember psoriasis cannot be cured overnight. You really need to consult your own psoriasis doctor because the best person to dictate your therapy is them. Alternative measures that you can try to help loosen the scales and reduce the itching caused by psoriasis is you can soak your body in a warm bath for 15 minutes, and to further soothe and moisturize the skin, you can add sea salt, bath oil or oatmeal. If you are on vacation in an area with mineral or salt baths, you can take a dip in one. These ways are associated with relieving psoriasis.
Next, please do reach out. We know the struggle of having psoriasis is a physical and emotional challenge. Feelings of desperation, isolation, depression, and frustration are very common. Body image can be a problem as it is related to the unattractive appearance of psoriasis lesions. You need to know it is common, hence please reach out because the World Health Organization reports that at least 100 million people are affected worldwide. You are not alone. The National Psoriasis Foundation is a psoriasis organization can connect you with others who are living with psoriasis and keep you informed about research developments.
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