Evaluation of Spa Therapy in the Treatment of Plaque Psoriasis

Launched by ASSOCIATION FRANCAISE POUR LA RECHERCHE THERMALE · Mar 25, 2014

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Psoriasis is one of the most common skin diseases, affecting 2-3% of the general population; more than 1 million people in France.

This auto-immune erythematosquamous inflammatory dermatosis occurs on a particular genetic background and has a chronic course. Psoriasis has a history as an indication for dermatological spa treatment (water cures in the Dead Sea). As these treatments are a combination of balneotherapy and heliotherapy, many recent studies have attempted to assess the value and position the relative benefit of each therapeutic element. Over the last four decades various differ...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Both sexes, over 18 years of age, patients with plaque psoriasis for more than one year diagnosed by a dermatologist
• • Stable treatment in the last 6 months
• • DLQI score \> 10
• • patients volunteering for spa treatment within 6 weeks
• • consenting to participate to the study with informed consent form signed after appropriate information
• • Affiliation to the French social security system or equivalent
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Pregnancy, parturient or breast feeding
• • Psychiatric illness or social situation that would preclude study compliance
• • Refusal of consent
• • Refusal of spa treatment
• • Contra-indication to spa treatment
• • Phototherapy in the last 3 months
• • Guttate, pustular or erythrodermic psoriasis Isolated nail psoriasis
• • Spa therapy in the past year
• • Person deprived of liberty or under legal guardianship