VIDEO: Limited treatment options for alopecia areata create challenges

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Even in adults, we currently have nothing approved as you know, but in adults there are studies going on, and there are some studies also going on in adolescents 12 and up. But in children, we really have nothing. And in clinical practice, so, you know, we have injections of steroids. We have some topical sensitizers, DPCP that are messy, not so helpful for many patients and then, we have off-label drugs that are being used, such as cyclosporine, immune suppressants basically, cyclosporine, other immune suppressants, even oral prednisone. Some people use JAK inhibitors from other indications and we have some, studies with JAK inhibitors that are going now into alopecia. And there are also some studies, clinical trials of course, with biologics.