Is psoriasis contagious? This is also the question that patients, their families and people around them are most concerned about, especially the doubts raised by patients who develop psoriasis for the first time and relatives and friends who are exposed to psoriasis for the first time.
When many patients suffer from psoriasis, many dotted rashes suddenly appear all over the body. Sometimes the rash is large and widespread, dry and flaking, which often makes people feel frightened, as if it is caused by some bacteria. Some psoriasis may also cause symptoms of joint inflammation and deformation, and it is thought that pathogens enter the joints and cause the disease. Because patients do not understand psoriasis, such assumptions and concepts often remain hidden in the minds of patients and their relatives and friends for a long time and are difficult to truly eliminate.
Many patients are self-isolating for fear of spreading the disease to other family members. Some patients who are new mothers are afraid to touch their children, dare not breastfeed, and dare not sleep with their children. Some family members of patients restrict the patients' movements for fear of infection, and some do not allow grandfathers and grandmothers with psoriasis to have contact with them. Grandchildren, patients are not even allowed to dine at the same table with their family members, and there are more cases where relatives, friends, and colleagues around them are alienated or even discriminate against patients. These situations cause patients tremendous mental pressure, great pain, and even make some patients have thoughts of committing suicide.
Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease. Clinical observations and laboratory studies have confirmed that psoriasis is not an infectious disease directly caused by microorganisms such as bacteria, viruses, fungi or parasites, and is never contagious. Dermatologists often use their hands to directly check the rashes of psoriasis patients, and they have never been infected; couples who are not related by blood have lived together for decades and have not been infected. This is very good proof.
