Psoriasis and Eczema Treatment in Kannur

Psoriasis and Eczema Care in Kannur, With Phototherapy

Most psoriasis in Kannur has spent a year or more being treated as a fungal infection. The plaques on the elbows, knees, scalp and lower back were covered in steroid-antifungal cream, improved briefly, and returned thicker, while the nails pitted and the scalp scaled. Eczema follows the same path: cracked hands in cooks, cleaners and construction workers, itchy folds in children, and seborrhoeic dermatitis on the face and scalp mistaken for both.

The Kannur consultation starts by naming the condition correctly, with a scraping to exclude fungus and a biopsy where the picture is unclear, and by checking nails and joints. Dr. Swathi P and the team then identify triggers, including stress, throat infections, sweat and friction in the monsoon, work irritants and the stop-start steroid use that unsettles both conditions, and set a routine of barrier repair and prescription topicals chosen for each body site.

For extensive or stubborn disease the clinic offers narrowband UVB phototherapy two to three times a week, which calms the immune activity in the skin without the side effects of long-term creams, and targeted phototherapy for individual resistant plaques. Severe disease, or psoriasis with joint symptoms, is treated with supervised oral medicines and blood monitoring, with onward referral for advanced therapy where that is the right step.

The aim is lasting control: a written routine for monsoon and dry months, a plan for flares, maintenance phototherapy where needed, and early review when things change. Patients who understand what their condition is and is not do far better than those still buying creams for a fungus they never had.

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