Pityriasis lichenoides chronica

Pityriasis lichenoides et varioliformis acuta, abbreviation Pleva, even Mucha - Habermann disease called, is a rarely occurring autoimmune disease that is not contagious. This is the serious version of pityriasis lichenoides chronica.

Characteristic of the disease are skin rash and lesions on the skin. Even if the rash with the aid of UV rays or the use of antibiotics or steroids can be treated, so there is no real cure possibility of the disease. In most cases, they disappear after some time of their own, but they can also go into remission, so disappear for some time and then recur. A chronic course of pityriasis lichenoides chronica in shape is possible.

Pityriasis lichenoides et varioliformis When acuta the behavior of T cells of the immune system is disturbed, so that they are directed against one's own body. They thereby destroy its own cells in the skin, which leads to the rash.

The disease usually strikes in childhood or in young adults, mostly male, on. It often happens that the disease is misdiagnosed as chickenpox. An accurate determination of this disease is possible by biopsy, ie, by the removal of a small area of ​​skin.

The cause of the disease has not yet been thoroughly explored. A virus could be used as trigger in question, but also environmental factors, or vaccines, such as a strong stress phase.