When you ask a healthcare provider for diagnosis and treatment for hair loss, the answer depends on many facts. Are you a man or a woman, and what are your age, genes, environment, and state of both physical and mental health?
In all cases, if you show signs of hair loss that may be attributed to an overactive immune system, the most likely diagnosis is alopecia areata. Now doctors are often prescribing off-label use of Xeljanz as the preferred treatment.
Xeljanz (tofacitinib citrate) was the first JAK inhibitor medication approved by the FDA for treating adults with several autoimmune diseases. These include forms of arthritis like rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, or ankylosing spondylitis. Other inflammatory bowel diseases, like ulcerative colitis and Crohns, can also be treated with it. These conditions share a common cause: the immune system attacks the body’s cells.
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