Talk:Hailey Hailey Disease (Familial Benign Pemphigus)

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Unfortunately, there is not much that really helps when the outbreaks come, except to suffer through them, "suffer" being the key word here, since the outbreaks are often extremely painful.

Pemphigus is not Benign Familial Pemphigus, usually called Hailey-Hailey disease.

Some medical books refer to Hailey-Hailey Disease as 'Benign Familial Pemphigus' but it is not true pemphigus. Hailey-Hailey is not an autoimmune disease as is pemphigus, it is genetic. There are some similarities in the blisters, but Hailey-Hailey is not caused by an auto-antibody, as in PV. For more information see www.bad.org.uk/patients

for being unencyclopedic in tone (and unsourced). To the first writer, if you can find a more formal way of saying that, and you can find a source that agrees with you, then go right ahead. To the second editor, the word pemphigus means "blister." Any disease involving blisters can be legitimately described as a kind of pemphigus. It happens that the most common versions are now understood to be autoimmune diseases, but that doesn't mean that BFP is an inaccurate name. WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:01, 27 November 2007 (UTC)