. Why do auto immune diseases like psoriasis only target certain parts of the body or skin and not everything?
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Psoriasis does affect most of the body, you just can’t see a lot of the affected parts. Psoriasis is essentially a disease of inflammation via the immune system as my doctor told me. Psoriatic patients are at higher risk for things like heart disease because of the damage done through inflammation. This widespread damage is also why insurance companies tend to approve the expensive monoclonal antibody treatments (MABs) to reduce the body’s immune response because it’s not just treating skin. As a side note MABs are also being found to help a lot of other diseases they didn’t realize such as Dupuytrens contracture and psoriatic arthritis.
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