Patients with psoriasis often ask questions such as "Can I drink alcohol with this disease? "Does drinking make it worse?" Questions like this. Let me start with the story of a patient who has also struggled with this problem.

        Manager Liu, male, 42, head of a Marketing Department of a company, has psoriasis vulgaris for more than 10 years. Now he is troubled by a problem is not to drink, because after drinking psoriasis symptoms significantly increased, the body scurf increased significantly. This was because in the summer of 1995, I was on a business trip for almost two months to complete the work of mass sales. I invited guests to dinner and drank wine every day. I often drank until 1:2 o 'clock late at night, and I was seriously short of sleep. Once by the rain after the scalp, chest, arms, thighs and other places have appeared in the size of more than five cents red spot, drop scales, itchy unbearable, and scratched bleeding, other scratches also appear the same skin damage. After taking pu Er sensitive, without what effect, he went to a nearby hospital to see a doctor one after another, did not diagnose, the doctor suspects to be allergic dermatitis, give "prednisone", "lei Gong Teng is polyglycoside tablet" wait for medicine symptom to alleviate obviously, but the illness after stopping medicine has a relapse again, and after drinking wine apparent aggravation. For this reason, Manager Liu tried every means to avoid drinking, but due to the special nature of his work, it is difficult to avoid drinking, and his rash is very light. After liu was diagnosed with "psoriasis" in a Beijing hospital in 1998, he experienced great mood swings. When he heard that the disease was "incurable", he was even more distressed. The doctor suggests him not to drink asperse, but now oneself already had marked achievement in sale business, drink wine is indispensable, people on dining table often says "wine wind is style", became the leader must lead this head well, Manager Liu always can not turn away, have to drink a few cups more. For this reason, Liu always complained that if he could not drink, it would affect his "future". You can't have your cake and eat it too!

        Alcohol consumption, especially long-term heavy consumption of alcohol, is a risk factor for psoriasis. The majority of patients in the daily outpatient service report that after drinking can appear skin itching, redness, leading to the recurrence of this disease. Especially after a few days of strong alcohol psoriasis can relapse or aggravation. There are a large number of survey support alcohol can induce and aggravate psoriasis, consistent study found that drinking a week before the onset of male patients with psoriasis 42.9 grams per day, while the normal control group (a set of random survey with psoriasis group with no differences in age, and occupation) only 21.0 grams, two groups of data exists significant difference after statistics processing found. Further studies revealed that ethanol could regulate cell proliferation and differentiation by affecting the synthesis pathways of polyamines, histamines and putresines. Ethanol can damage the immune response, interfere the function of T lymphocytes, and then affect the cell-mediated immune response. Ethanol can also directly dilate blood vessels, increase blood vessel permeability, facilitate neutrophils to swim out, promote inflammatory response; Ethanol increased arachidonic acid content, inhibited adenylate cyclase, reduced cyclic adenosine cAMP and increased cyclic guanosine phosphate (cGMP), leading to excessive proliferation of epidermal cells. Thus, psoriasis patients must limit the amount of alcohol. Clinicians need to remind patients of the trade-off between increased disease recurrence and alcohol consumption.

        Every thing has its two sides. In clinical practice, there are also cases of long-term drinking, but there are no cases that aggravate the symptoms of psoriasis. Uncle I have an older patients, high 88 - year - old body is hale and hearty, history of psoriasis have nearly 50 years, in high big ye life, although the symptoms of psoriasis, but didn't hold up high the big ye drink, for decades, as usual, is 2 times of wine every day, every time is 2-3 two, but his old man's house be detected no drinking and constantly increasing consequently. On the contrary, the author also met an elderly patient, Uncle Zhao, 90 years old, psoriasis history has been nearly 30 years, the usual symptoms of psoriasis is sometimes absent. Five years ago, in the family a request for alcohol, Uncle Zhao reluctantly gave up love, finally quit drinking. This wine can not give up, Uncle Zhao's whole body appeared psoriasis skin lesions, this situation in his life is rarely seen. Fortunately, uncle Zhao finally managed to control his aggravated psoriasis back to the state before he quit drinking with our help. Of course, these are individual cases and cannot represent the whole. However, from long-term clinical observation, we have found that as long as we are not addicted to alcohol, we should drink less in our life, especially if we have formed a habitual lifestyle, it is better not to deliberately abstain from alcohol in the pursuit of a radical cure for psoriasis.

        Life has its own pleasure, moderate drinking, less drinking, widely exists in many patients with psoriasis, as long as it does not aggravate psoriasis, a small amount of drinking can be regarded as an attitude towards life, or an attitude towards the disease. However, there is a difference between moderate and light drinking and heavy drinking. Alcohol abuse, whether for the body, or for a variety of diseases are very hidden dangers, psoriasis patients are contraindicated! At the same time, the majority of psoriasis patients in life, if found after drinking psoriasis symptoms worsened, or advise friends, quit it.