I hope you found this test very interesting that I've been working on. As you may or may not know, there are a number of psoriasis treatments that can be done at the doctors office versus those that can be done at home. These tests that I've been working on are to see if it would be possible for someone with psoriasis to use various LCD and/or tar creams at home. These creams can be very messy and difficult to deal with. What I have done is taken small lesions of psoriasis that I would normally quickly treat with protopic or another steroid, and treated them with LCD or tar.

I would not know what treatment will or won't work for you. That is up to you and your doctor to discuss. The information in this piece is just what worked for me, so it is important to take that into account as you read about my experience below.

The materials needed for me to do these tests were LCD 20% in Nutraderm lotion, Coal Tar Ointment 2% in White Petrolatum, Coal Tar Ointment 5% in White Petrolatum, Coal Tar Ointment 10% in White Petrolatum, a number of sets of dark pajamas, a number of sets of dark clothes, baby wipes, and a number of sets of brown and a dark colored sheets.

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