Treat skin injuries immediately using ice application or a compression bandage as applicable to reduce inflammation use sunscreen whenever outdoors limit your sun exposure to 20 minutes if you have active psoriasis symptoms use an insect repellent to avoid bites. With psoriasis good compliance is important to help reduce the rate at which you produce new skin cells stop the side effects of some treatments such as burning or irritation control your symptoms keep your skin looking and feeling at its best. The coping strategies most frequently used by patients with psoriasis were acceptance planning active coping and positive reinterpretation the least frequently used were alcohol and nonprescription drugs religion and denial of their condition despite reporting greater disability patients with severe psoriasis did not significantly differ from those with mild moderate disease in their use of particular forms of coping strategies patients with psoriasis as a whole tended to use . Objective psoriasis and hidradenitis suppurativa hs are both chronic inflammatory skin diseases with significant comorbidity this study aimed to examine how patients with psoriasis or hs cope with their conditions on a personal and psychosocial level especially in times of clinical exacerbation and symptom deterioration