Psoriasis, Possible Connection To celiac disease

[Michi8]

Hi there,

Just had a visit with another dermatologist who will be doing my patch testing (one of the many tests I'm going through to uncover what is going on with my health.) When going over my history, I had mentioned that I was diagnosed with eczema many years ago. After going over my "eczema" symptoms, the dr said it sounds like it is actually psoriasis (though I'm not flaring right now, so had nothing to show him.) Totally floored me. My eczema diagnosis was by a GP, and I had just assumed that's what it was all these years.

Did a little looking online and found this interesting article on the possible connection between psoriasis and celiac: Open Original Shared Link

Michelle

[Lollie]

Hi there,

Just had a visit with another dermatologist who will be doing my patch testing (one of the many tests I'm going through to uncover what is going on with my health.) When going over my history, I had mentioned that I was diagnosed with eczema many years ago. After going over my "eczema" symptoms, the dr said it sounds like it is actually psoriasis (though I'm not flaring right now, so had nothing to show him.) Totally floored me. My eczema diagnosis was by a GP, and I had just assumed that's what it was all these years.

Did a little looking online and found this interesting article on the possible connection between psoriasis and celiac: Open Original Shared Link

Michelle

Thank you for this info. My little girl has had a psoriasis problem behind her ear for well over a year now. If we ever forget to medicate it, she just gets eaten alive with the "scales". And it starts to crack and bleed and spread. I have wondered if she might have celiac, for a number of reasons,(since I have celiac and I know there is a genetic connection) but if going gluten-free would fix that too.... I might go ahead and make the gluten-free diet a little stricter for her, too.

Lollie

[lonewolf]

I have psoriasis and excema (lucky me). I have been wheat-free (gluten "light") for over 10 years and fanatically gluten-free since last November. I would love to say that going gluten-free cleared mine up, but it didn't, although it's WAY better than it used to be. The only two times in my life I've had clear skin (my face is actually almost always clear - it's the rest of me that's not) are when I was on prednisone and when I only ate fish, rice, some fruit, some vegetables and sunflower seeds for an entire year. It gets worse when I eat a lot of sugar, which I try to not do. I use Dovonex (vitamin D cream) and it helps.