Update in the Treatment of Childhood Psoriasis: Treat Early or Hit Later

As much as 40% of adult patients with psoriasis have reported manifestations of
this condition in childhood, with at least one-third of the patients demonstrating features of psoriasis before the age of 16.1 years. Pediatric psoriasis consists of three age groups of psoriatic patients like infantile psoriasis, a self-limited disease of infancy, psoriasis with early onset, and pediatric psoriasis with psoriatic arthritis. The disease in children is more pruritic, common in girls,
and the lesions are relatively thinner, softer, and less scaly. Plaque type is the most common form of disease. Various therapeutic updates will be discusse