Has anyone heard of this benign skin disease?

Has anyone contracted this skin disease? How long did it take you to recover?

I had to search the net to find how it looks like on a black person



A young relative had this around his belly button but not over his entire body like this picture. It was when he was a child over time puberty and changes in diet might have cause these similar type of reactions to cease and disappear. I am not recommending anything for I am not a doctor.

PITY-riasis, i thought you were taking the p**s, but i found its real....

"This disorder is a common skin rash of youngadults.Occuring mostly in autumn and spring. A virus is suspected as the cause.It is not thought to be highly contagious.

Attacks generally last 4 - 8 weeks.

Although the disorder resolves in time, a doctor should be consulted to rule out other disorders including syphilis".

blktypeYou might want to consider eliminatingcertain foods from your diet, maybe those you instinctively feel are not good for you, to see if they ease the symptoms.

blktypeCould you benefit from minerals and vitamins?

blktypeWhat kind of soap do you wash your body and clothes with (extra rinse???)

blktypeNatural fibers such as cotton (vests/shirts etc)are bestfor direct skin contact.

yes its a horrible disease...



Pathophysiology: PR has often been considered to be a viral exanthem. Its clinical presentation supports this concept. PR has been linked to upper respiratory infections, it can cluster within families and close contacts, and it has an increased incidence in individuals who are immunocompromised. As with viral exanthems, the incidence may increase in the fall and the spring. A single outbreak tends to elicit lifelong immunity.
Immunologic data suggest a viral etiology. Increased amounts of CD4 T cells and Langhans cells are present in the dermis; this observation may indicate viral antigen processing and presentation. Also, anti-immunoglobulin M (IgM) to keratinocytes has been found in patients with PR; this finding may be associated with the exanthem phase of the presumed viral infection.
Despite these tendencies, no single virus has been proven to cause the disease. A number of viruses have been studied for a link to PR. Picornaviruslike particles have been seen in the tissue of African green monkeys inoculated from human PR lesions. A follow-up study failed to find picornavirus RNA in patients with PR. A recent study showed no increase in anti-IgM to parvovirus B19, making this etiology less likely. Serology and polymerase chain reaction for viral DNA has been negative for Epstein-Barr virus, parvovirus B19, and cytomegalovirus in patients diagnosed with PR.

http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic3335.htm