A man who ‘became a hermit’ after waking up to find his face and body covered in red and scaly raindrop-sized patches is looking forward to celebrating Manchester Pride this weekend without feeling self-conscious after a lifestyle change cured his angry-looking skin.
Blessed with a clear complexion throughout his teens, Scot Cunningham, 27, began to suffer with mild psoriasis – a skin condition which causes flaky patches of often scaly skin – on his arms and torso when he turned 21.
Scot, from Salford, said using steroid creams helped to keep the mild flare-ups at bay. But in October last year when he woke up to find his entire body and face covered in unsightly and itchy red patches which would not budge.
