Psoriasis charity launches in Norfolk to support UK patients

Mr Nelson was diagnosed aged 12 with juvenile idiopathic arthritis, but said doctors took another decade to recognise his psoriasis.

“I was told I’d grow out of it. I would report rashes and I was just told it was thrush or poor hygiene, or being a teenage boy – all things that we now recognise as obvious stigmas.

“It wasn’t until my mid-20s, when I was covered in psoriasis, that I was diagnosed. I was so poorly educated that I didn’t recognise the blisters on my hands were the same condition as the rashes on my head or on my genitals.

“I was really embarrassed at university because I had one rash that was just below my beltline. As an 18-year-old young man, that’s not a place you want to have rashes or be having conversations about.”