Is that why barflies are always scratching themselves?

I like root beer!!

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I have Psoriasis as a man and it's not fun! I have to take injections to control it.

Good! Maybe now I can get my wife to leave my beer alone.

And having sex may lead to pregnancy! Is this really new news?

Fortunately for women, drinking beer usually causes blurred vision in men.

I have had my psoriasis since I was 14 years old. It's brought on by stress and nerves. There is nothing out there to cure it. These Doctor's have no clue so they try to find something to cover it up. Tar doesn't work and neither does cortizone - 10 creams or shots. They didn't tell you that the shots make your bones brittle as you age. I did find that the hand cream made by Jergens/ healthy glow ( the stuff that has the self tanning stuff in it) does really work well on the elbows and Lotrimin's foot cream works great too. I don't know why, but it got rid of mine that was on my knees and elbows, it helps with the itching ( work great for ant, chigger, misquito bites too). Foods play a big part in it to. To much choclate, eggs, peanut butter, even orange juice can make it flare up. The best advice you can take is, don't let every little thing bug you. You just have to say the heck with it. Once you can calm yourself down inside, you'll feel better.

Typical, a disease that causes many people life long problems and it is a joke to some of you. Jeez, no wonder I like my dog more than most people.

Starmom,

Have you ever tried tanning. Believe it or not it works on psoriasis. My niece had a bad case of it when she was about 6. You would think being that young she wouldn't be allowed to tan, but her doctor put her through low doeses of a tanning booth, and it cleared right up within a few months. She has not had it since, not even a small outbreak, and she is now in her twenties. That maybe why the jergens lotion with self tanner works so well. Just a thought.

Women enjoy giving BJ"s mor than the guys on the receiving end.

So, of 82,869 women over about 14 years, 1.39% were diagnosed with psoriasis. Does this mean that simply by virtue of being a woman one has a 1.39% risk of being afflicted by this particular problem?

Of 1,069 of these women that were analyzed, some unknown number of women drank more than 2.3 drinks per week and had a 72% higher risk of psoriasis than nondrinkers. Further, if "drinks" includes light beer, red or white wine, or liquor, then some unknown subset of this already unknown quantity of women drank non-light beer and were compared to an unknown number of non-beer drinkers. . .and there's a bunch of percentages and risk assigned to the drinkers.

They found that drinking five or more non-light beers per week raised psoriasis risk 1.8 times higher than that of women who drank no beer. And when considering only confirmed psoriasis cases — those in which women provided more details about their condition, in a seven-item self-assessment— researchers found the risk for psoriasis was 2.3 times higher.

What a bunch of scary gobbledy-gook! I love science and have always been a fan of research but I am not a scientist. Even I can see that the presentation of these research results tells me nothing about overall risk based on all of the various (but largely unknown) samples and criteria used to arrive at these results.

Please don't dangle a bunch of meaningless numbers under a headline like this. The headline was intended to draw in people who have - or believe they might be at risk for - psoriasis who are interested in anything they can do to minimize risk and/or treat this difficult problem.

Is it too much to ask for scientific journalism that presents real data in ways that interested citizens can properly digest? I understand that many people are uninterested in the numbers except for how it might affect them personally.

Either include a simple table or find another method for those who are interested in determining risk (with appropriate disclaimers and the numbers it is based on) or, if as is usually the case, the research outcomes are not applicable to individuals or are too complex for the average interested reader to calculate, state that. It is still appropriate, if providing numbers and percentage of risk, to provide enough numbers for the above-average reader to make sense of what's presented.

maybe women should stick to drinking tequila shots... whiskey for my men and beer for my horses... hell... I've known women that drank beer all of their lives and never got psoriasis... wonder how many tax dollars they spent to come up with this??? maybe it's just women in the big cities???

hey, brew your own beer: http://www.squidoo.com/homemade-beer-a-quick-guide

Sure am glad it only affects women, dam this itch.

This is not just women.

Some of these people may have celiac disease causing dermatitis herpetiformis (pic warning: very extreme version of the rash), and it would not be just beer that is doing it.

Not a joke people. It's genetic, a major risk factor for cancer, and 90% of the people that have it don't know it, suffer all their lives with a "weak stomach" and "bad skin" without being diagnosed.

If anyone out there suffers from or has multiple of these symptoms:

• frequent diarrhea
• deal with a long term bilateral (somewhat mirrored left/right) itchy red pinprick rash that comes and goes centered on skin hair follicles that itch more when it gets wet and eventually skin dries and flakes off
• think you can't eat greasy food "like you used to"
• bread or wheat by itself does nothing (you think)
• bread/noodles/dounuts + fatty/greasy/cheesy food is like a knife in the stomach 1-2 hours later

PLEASE check the above links. You may be at an increased risk for cancer, and it's an easy fix for your stomach and skin problems. I know many people that have gotten gall bladders removed for no reason because of this. Doctors do not diagnose this properly.

Also, this article sucks. Seriously. They don't name the skin problem, don't point out other causes, and only target it to women when it affects both men and women? "Beer and chicks" story for a serious medical condition??? Stupid!

Another stupid unheard of discovery....where in the world do they get this stuff?? Drink your beer ladies.....ther is no truth in this what so ever!!

I cannot beleive the insensitive people on here. Like Starrmom, I've also had this condition since I was 14, I've made it 25 years of severe psoriasis, covering over 90% of my body. Try going to highschool like that. What most of you don't know, is that 400 people a year die from this condition. Shockingly, only 5% die from the desease itself, as an infection. The other 95% die from suicide. If you don't have this condition, you really should shut your trap.

I'd switch to light,there's not a lot of deferents.

Some very enlighting comments. Thanks for those. As for the other side of the dicussion, grow up and by the way, use your spell check and read your posting before posting.