Childhood Psoriasis: An introduction

This leaflet aims to provide an overview and understanding of the likelihood of your child developing psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis, how to spot the conditions, and how to support and manage your child through their early years.  

Contents include:

• Why is it important?
• What is psoriasis?
• What happens?
• Is psoriasis inherited?
• What does psoriasis look like in children?
• Psoriatic arthritis in children
• Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
• Differential diagnosis
• What may trigger psoriasis?
• What should happen next?
• Multidisciplinary approach
• Prognosis
• Is there a cure?
• Treatments
• plus much more ...

Published June 2023