CNA – Yuzlina Yaacob always knew she wanted a large family. At the age of 26, she got married, and a month later, became pregnant. Two months into her pregnancy, in October 2005, Yuzlina discovered she had generalised pustular psoriasis (GPP), a rare, incurable skin disease that’s also an autoimmune disorder. Her GPP symptoms first […]
Shortly after her wedding and newly pregnant, Yuzlina Yaacob developed pus-filled blisters all over her body. She shares with CNA Women the struggles of living with generalised pustular psoriasis, a painful lifelong autoimmune disease that affects the skin, and how she went on to have several children and get a mast