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Psoriasis

February 26th, 2009

What is Psoriasis?


Executive Summary about Proriasis by Joseph Then

Psoriasis is an inflammatory of the skin. It is a skin condition which can affect a person’s daily living. Symptons of Pasoriasis include: widespread redness, severe itching, and pain. There is no cure for Psoriasis currently. The treatment are basically short-term and random. That means the treatment can only clear Pasoriasis for only a certain period of time and each patient respond to the treatment differently. Each treatment methodology has its pros and cons and it will take a board-certified dermatologists who have the medical training and experience to determine the most appropriate treatments for each patient.

psoriasis treatment

psoriasis treatment

Generally, Psoriasis treatments fall into 3 categories:
- Topical (applied to the skin) for mild to moderate Psoriasis
- Photo (light, usually ultraviolet, applied to the skin) for moderate to severe Psoriasis
- Systemic (taken orally or by injection or infusion) for moderate, severe or disabling Psoriasis

Recently, a new method called “Doctorfish” (or Garra rufa). They live and breed in outdoor pools of some Turkish spas but now they are pretty popular in the Asian countries like Japan, Taiwan and most recently, Singapore. These fishes feed on the skin of patients with Psoriasis. These fishes are like combfishes and they only consume the dead areas of the skin, leaving the healthy skin to grow. Psoriasis, till now, is still relatively unknown in the research arena. Medical experts and scientist have, in the past 10-20 years, research on this subject.

The key here is to seek immediate doctor’s attention.

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Garra Rufa Therapy

February 25th, 2009

Psoriasis Treatment: What Are Your Options?


Executive Summary about Proriasis Treatment by Evelyn Lim

garra rufa treatment

garra rufa treatment

Getting an appropriate psoriasis treatment is important if you have this condition. In severe cases, your joints can become inflamed. Additionally, psoriasis is a type of skin inflammation that can disable you and affect your quality of life. Symptoms of psoriasis on the skin include widespread redness, severe itching and pain. To know if you have this condition or not, you will need to seek a skin specialist for a proper diagnosis.

Unfortunately there is no known cure for psoriasis. Most often the short-term treatments available for this disease centre on the use of drugs. Unfortunately, these treatments will only clear up your psoriasis for a short period of time. A natural psoriasis treatment can also be used. Of course, all of these treatments have pros and cons, so it is best to ask your doctor for some help and guidance in getting a suitable psoriasis treatment.

You should know that there are 3 main types of treatment.
1. Topical treatments can be applied to your skin if you have a mild to moderate case of psoriasis.
2. Photo treatments are used if you have a moderate to severe cases of psoriasis. This includes light, usually ultraviolet light, being applied to your skin.
3. Systemic treatments are available if you have a moderate to disabling form of psoriasis. This treatment is taken either orally, by injection or by infusion. One such product is Theraflax.
4. A new alternative psoriasis treatment is with the use of a fish known as “Doctor fish” (or Garra rufa). This is a type of fish that live and breed in outdoor pools of some Turkish spas. You should know that this is not an exact treatment but some patients have reported success with this alternative psoriasis treatment method.

Until the past 10 years, psoriasis remained an under-researched condition. What is known is that researchers have discovered that psoriasis is somewhat genetic, affecting people between 15 and 35 years old. In time, hopefully, with more research and greater understanding, an effective psoriasis treatment or real cure can be found.

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Tatia Aulopygia

February 24th, 2009

Description of Tatia Aulopygia


Tatia aulopygia is quite a pretty catfish as most of this genus are. The eyes are large with a skin over them and a few non catfish aquarists tend to think that they have cloudy eye’s and it is a disease, but this is normal for the Auchenipteridae family.
The barbels are moderate in length reaching to the end of the dorsal fin and they tend to bend them upwards when looking for food. They can also tuck their barbels alongside their cheeks making them nearly invisible.

Tatia possess a very small adipose fin and a moderately sized ventral and anal. In its native habitat this fish feed on small invertebrates and crustaceans and in the aquarium they will eat anything given such as frozen bloodworm inserted in to their hideaway, catfish tablets, white worm (sparingly) and prawns and shrimp.

They do like their food and you can see them shooting out of their hideouts and swimming in a frenzied manner to try and take all for themselves, especially when you feed them their favourite food, frozen bloodworm.

tatia aulopygia

tatia aulopygia

Scientific classification

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Osteichthyes
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Auchenipteridae
Genus: Tatia
Scientific name: Tatia Aulopygia

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