Do You Have Psoriasis?

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Psoriasis: A reddish, scaly rash often located over the surfaces of the elbows, knees, scalp, and around or in the ears, navel, genitals or buttocks. Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease that is mediated by T lymphocytes. It is also a very common disease, Chronic plaque psoriasis affects approximately 2% of people around the world. About 10-15% of patients with psoriasis develop joint inflammation (inflammatory arthritis). Treatment options include topical steroid creams, tar soap preparations, and exposure to ultraviolet light.

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Find your symptom or sign of disease by using the Symptom Checker.

For a list of symptoms, you can use the symptom checker for men or for women a-z lists.

What is the difference between a symptom and a sign?

Medical Author: William C. Shiel Jr., MD, FACP, FACR

A symptom is any subjective evidence of disease, while a sign is any objective evidence of disease. Therefore, a symptom is a phenomenon that is experienced by the individual affected by the disease, while a sign is a phenomenon that can be detected by someone other than the individual affected by the disease. For examples, anxiety, pain, and fatigue are all symptoms. In contrast, a bloody nose is a sign of injured blood vessels in the nose that can be detected by a doctor, a nurse, or another observer.

Health care professionals use symptoms and signs as clues that can help to determine the most likely diagnosis when illness is present. Symptoms and signs are also used to compose a listing of the possible diagnoses. This listing is referred to as the differential diagnosis. The differential diagnosis is the basis from which initial tests are ordered to narrow the possible diagnostic options and choose initial treatments.

Most Common Symptoms & Signs

• Stomach Cramps
• Easy Bruising
• Swollen Eyes
• Missed Menstrual Period

• Vaginal Odor
• Shoulder Pain
• Burning Urination
• Mouth Sores

• Nausea
• Vaginal Pain
• Rectal Bleeding
• Stool Color & Texture Changes

• Buttock Pain
• Cloudy Urine
• Numbness Fingers
• Vertical Ridges on the Fingernails

Popular Symptoms by Conditions

• Allergy symptoms
• Anemia symptoms
• Anxiety symptoms
• Bladder infection (UTI) symptoms
• Blood clot symptoms
• Brain tumor symptoms
• Breast cancer symptoms
• Cancer symptoms
• Cervical cancer symptoms
• Cold symptoms
• Colon cancer symptoms
• Depression symptoms
• Diabetes symptoms
• Early pregnancy symptoms

• Flu (influenza) symptoms
• Heart attack symptoms
• Hernia symptoms
• Herpes symptoms (Women)
• High blood pressure symptoms
• HIV symptoms
• Kidney stone symptoms
• Leukemia symptoms
• Lung cancer symptoms
• Lupus symptoms
• Menopause symptoms
• Mono symptoms
• MS symptoms
• Ovarian cancer symptoms

• Pancreatic cancer symptoms
• Pneumonia symptoms
• Pregnancy symptoms
• Prostate cancer symptoms
• Sinus infection symptoms
• STD symptoms (Men)
• STD symptoms (Women)
• Strep throat symptoms
• Stress symptoms
• Stroke symptoms
• Swine flu (H1N1 flu) symptoms
• Ulcer symptoms
• UTI symptoms
• Yeast infection symptoms