Joint guidelines explore best practices in NB-UVB therapy for psoriasis
Reporting on “Joint American Academy of Dermatology–National Psoriasis Foundation guidelines of care for the management and treatment of psoriasis with phototherapy”
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Note: Dermatologists have come to a consensus in having people come into the office many times for treatment. They have ignored the possibility of people curing their psoriasis or other skin problems at home with UV, oral Vitamin D, or Topical vitamin D
Note by Founder of VitaminDWiki:
Topical Vitamin D works great for many skin problems, not just psoriasis. Vitamin D oil (2,000 IU per drop), and Vitamin D Aloe Cream (10,000 IU per pump) both work within days
Items in both categories Psoriasis and UV are listed here:
- Best psoriasis treatment was combo of Vitamin D, UVA, and Calcium – meta-analysis Jan 2022
- UV has treated psoriasis for over a century, guidelines finally agreed upon – Aug 2019
- Ultraviolet light (which produces vitamin D) decreased the use of psoriasis drugs for a year – Aug 2017
- Phototherapy and vitamin D – Sept 2016
- Psoriasis decreased and vitamin D increased with home UV lamp – March 2015
- NB UVB increased vitamin D levels while decreasing psoriasis and CYP27A1 – March 2014
- UVB effects on genes of those with and without Psoriasis – April 2014
- Psoriasis treatment by narrowband UV B – review Nov 2010
- UV produces more than vitamin D – Aug 2011
- Health benefit of Sunlight is more than Vitamin D in the blood - many studies
- Vitamin D Receptor in vitiligo skin activated by UVB – May 2018
- 35,000 IU vitamin D daily for 6 months helped ALL psoriasis suffers (106 ng) – Brazil March 2013
- Psoriasis reduced for those getting Vitamin D levels above 50 ng – RCT Feb 2018
- Psoriasis severity associated with low vitamin D (10 studies) – meta-analysis Jan 2018
- Make your own UVB Vitamin D lamp for 40 dollars - Jan 2019
- This UV lamp could be used over a large fraction of the body
- Psoriasis paradigm shift – use topicals, like Vitamin D – Aug 2021
Psoriasis photo therapies for adults
1) Narrowband ultraviolet B (NB-UVB)
2) Broadband ultraviolet B (BB-UVB)
3) Targeted phototherapy (excimer laser and excimer lamp)
4) Psoralen plus ultraviolet A (PUVA) therapy
a. Topical
b. Bath
c. Oral
5) Photodynamic therapy
6) Grenz ray therapy
7) Climatotherapy
8) Visible light therapy
9) Goeckerman therapy
10) Pulsed dye laser and Intense pulsed light