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Health Benefits Of Retinoids

Can Alleviate Psoriasis

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Retinoids have been used to help some psoriasis patients, where raised, scaly, red patches appear on the scalp, elbows, and knees. Psoriasis lesions develop on an individual's skin because the skin cells reproduce at an abnormally rapid rate, which causes patches of accumulated skin cells in these areas. Psoriasis tends to manifest in episodes that occur in response to some internal mechanism or environmental factor that induces an immune response. The lesions that develop on the skin of a psoriasis patient are the result of the rapidly reproducing and dead skin cells that do not shed from the skin properly. Instead of sloughing off as they usually would, the continuous growth and addition of new skin cells in the area cause the dead skin cells to stick and remain part of the affected individual's skin. Retinoids are known to help normalize the process of dead skin cell removal, which may reduce the appearance of the psoriatic lesions when a patient is experiencing a flare-up.

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