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Are there any limitations on duration of use with roflumilast? 

Psoriasis

So fruvelas is not a topical steroid. So that's an important thing to note. And as a result of that, it doesn't have any limitation on the duration of use. Historically for psoriasis we've used topical steroids and we always sort of tell the patients with this caveat that please don't use it for longer than two weeks or don't use it for more than two days in a week just to decrease the side effect of a topical steroid use. No such issue with reflumolast. When I give it to my patient, I'm like once a day, use it for as long as it takes to clear your psoriasis. If your psoriasis comes back again after you've stopped using it, you could go back to it at any time. You can use it at any sensitive part of the body, even hard to treat part of the bodies like elbows and knees and it is gentle so there's really nothing to worry about with long term use of lumalar, should that be the case.