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Do you prescribe oral JAK inhibitors for your pediatric patients with vitiligo or alopecia areata?

JAK Inhibitors

So the answer to that is that I have not yet prescribed oral jack inhibitors for any of my pediatric vitiligo patients. I have prescribed it for my adult vitiligo patients, and in those situations I've used oral tofastidinib, and I do prescribe oral jack inhibitors for my alopecia. Pediatric patients who are over 16. I haven't gone less than 16 yet, and again, I use the tofacidinib and it's five milligrams twice daily. I do have several patients who are in open label studies taking oral jacks, and unfortunately, none of those are pediatric trials, so I can't comment on that. But certainly in my pediatric patients, again 16 and over, we've had good success using the oral tofacidinib in many of those patients, and they tolerate it quite well.