Scalp psoriasis - driving me mad

[DuchessDaisy]

Hi,

I seem to have suffered to varying degrees with scalp psoriasis for years. I have tried all the usual shampoos - Nizoral, Capasal, T-gel etc used them properly i.e leaving in for 15/30 mins before rinsing then removing scale with fine comb but nothing really seems to help.

Have tried less medicated stuff - lush snake oil and soak and float bar

When I asked GPs about this (ages okay) Nizoral was suggested!

It's awful, terrible flaky scalp, scratching lifts off large flakes and leaves inflamed red skin. Some areas are scabbed etc due to scratching

Any advice if you suffer from this? Anything that has really helped? Thanks!

Its an autoimmune condition, so have you tried an anti inflammatory diet to treat the cause rather than the symptoms?

Amitha I've just had a quick look at that and I suspect it relates to what I said about mine improving when u improved my diet. Didn't know that was what I'd done. Thanks.

A combination of 2 things worked for me :

1. a short-term (1 month) prescription treatment with a cortisone based shampoo to clear up a bad break out

1. after that, i cut out all shampoos containing sulphates, and any silicone based products (i have curly hair so was using a lot of conditioners and curl cream type things that contained silicone). since i did this, a year ago, i have had no bad breakouts, and the only time i had a touch of psoriasis was when i went away for a weeks and had to use regular shampoo/conditioner cos i forgot to bring my own.

i'm not in the UK, so i don't think there's much point in giving the names of the products i use, but if you do a bit of research you should be able to find a uk equivalent

i have had this for years Dovobet steroid oil works wonders it disappears!