Q I am a 41-year-old office worker in Dong-incheon. The day after drinking at a company dinner, my psoriasis area gets redder and itchier. Do foods affect psoriasis?
A Alcohol, spicy and greasy foods, and instant food are typical triggers that increase inflammation in the body and worsen psoriasis. While it is rare for food to be the direct cause of psoriasis, alcohol in particular reddens lesions and intensifies itching in almost all patients. Simply reducing irritating foods and alcohol can help lower the frequency of flares.
Detailed Answer
Psoriasis itself is not a disease caused by food allergies, but dietary habits are a decisive variable that either fans or reduces the flames of inflammation. Alcohol dilates blood vessels and increases systemic inflammation, making lesions redder and itchier, and spicy, greasy foods and instant food act similarly. Therefore, both Western and Korean medicine emphasize abstaining from alcohol and reducing irritating foods in psoriasis management.
Korean Medicine Clinic Perspective
Dongjedang sees alcohol and spicy, greasy foods as directly drawing up blood-heat. When heat is added to the blood, that heat rushes to the skin and intensifies the red patches and thick scales. During the treatment period, alcohol, spicy and greasy foods, and instant food must be reduced to cut off the source of blood-heat—this is the shortcut to recovery.
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