How psoriasis can affect bones

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What is good for your overall health is also good for your bones. Here are four habits that you can develop to reduce your risk of osteoporosis.

1. regularly exercise

The exercise, “a particularly vigorous exercise that brings weight”, explains Ritchlin, can stress on your bones, which helps to strengthen them. This, in turn, can help prevent bone loss.

Weight exercise is any activity that works your bones and muscles against gravity:

Walking, hiking, jogging and running
Dancing
Play tennis, basketball, football and volleyball
Climbing stairs

If you already have a bone loss, tell your doctor about what you can do. You may want to avoid high impact exercises involving jump or torsion. If you are unable to be as active as you wish, tell your doctor. They can refer to a physique or the occupational therapist who can help you modify certain exercises.

2. Incorporate strength training

Just as weight lifting strengthens muscle fibers by stressing them, weight lifting stresses your bones, reinforcing them in the long term.

However, you don’t need to opt for dumbbells. You can use resistance bands or do body weight exercises like pumps. Three sets of 12 repetitions of the exercise of your choice are the standard for effective strength training, but you can do more or less as you can. Aim for two strength training sessions per week.

3. Get enough vitamin D

People with psoriasis tend to lack vitamin D, with levels up to 7 times lower than those without psoriasis.

It is not clear that obtaining more vitamin from helps to protect your bones, explains Ritchlin, but if you are weak (below 20 nanograms per milliliter), it is a good idea to try to get more. Your doctor can check your level of vitamin D with a blood test, explains Dr. Hebert.

Vitamin D is called sun vitamin because sun exposure triggers your body to produce vitamin. You can absorb vitamin D by spending about 10 minutes outside per day.

Few foods naturally contain vitamin D (fatty fish such as salmon and tuna), but you can also consume fortified foods such as milk and breakfast cereals.

Vitamin D is also found in soy, almonds and oats, so you can opt for them if cow’s milk triggers your psoriasis.

4. Ask your doctor if you should take osteoporosis medication

If you have psoriasis, you may already take medication to control inflammation, which can help protect your bones. There are also drugs that can help slow bone loss.

“We are very lucky that we now have a number of drugs that can help bone force,” says Hebert. However, your dermatologist is not the doctor to prescribe them. However, she says: “We want to take care of the whole patient, even if we do not manage all the aspects of their care.” Your primary care doctor or a rheumatologist may be the person to prescribe osteoporosis drugs.

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