Editor’s Note:  While all patients with PRP share a common core of symptoms, the specific symptoms that patients experience may vary dramatically. PRP causes pink, red, or orange-red scaly patches on the skin — usually everywhere, but not always. But that is just the beginning. Each PRP patient diagnosed with PRP — and their caregiver […]
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 Why is it so difficult to diagnose PRP? Dan M, Rutland, Vermont, a dermatologist, was diagnosed with PRP in July, 2015 and is currently in remission. He posted the following to fellow members of the PRP Facebook Support Group. “PRP can mimic other much more common skin like contact dermatitis, eczema and psoriasis. A
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How do PRP symptoms progress over the body? The PRP timeline varies from sequential to haphazard. For some PRP patients the inflammation spreads like a wildfire. Others watch a slow, methodical movement from “hither to yon” where neither hither nor yon is predictable. Here are some of the symptoms fellow PRP patients and their caregivers
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When a dermatologist examines a patient who will eventually be diagnosed with PRP, they may see signs and symptoms that suggest a more common skin disorder. When that dermatologist combines medical training, clinical observations and biopsies and makes a diagnosis of psoriasis or atopic dermatitis, it is called a differential diagnosis — not a mistake. A differential diagnosis
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How is PRP Diagnosed? The rendering of an “official” diagnosis of pityriasis rubra pilaris requires two elements: clinical observation AND a biopsy that “supports” a diagnosis of PRP. Clinical observations of a trained dermatologist When a yet-to-be diagnosed PRP patient is seen by a dermatologist, the scope of the symptoms may vary from a small
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Based on the comments of fellow PRP patients and caregivers, dermatologists seem reticent to go beyond a simple diagnosis. We are told Adult Onset PRP or Juvenile Onset PRP. The age of onset makes that an easy call. As PRP patients and caregivers, we want to know where we fit it. Atypical Adult Onset With adults,
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