Posted on 06/21/2014 1:46:15 PM PDT by Innovative
According to Yale University scientists, this new novel treatment option was crafted as a way to treat alopecia universalis - a disease that leaves its victims almost entirely bare of hair. The university reports that the results of experimental testing on a 25-year-old male patient mark the first successful targeted treatment of this disease in medical history.
King is the senior author of a study published in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology that details this success.
According to the study, the male study participant was placed on a daily regimen of 10 mg of tofacitinib citrate - a preexisting FDA-approved drug for rheumatoid arthritis.
After two months, the patient had grown scalp and facial hair. After eight months of treatment, the patient had experienced "full regrowth of hair" including eyebrows and eye lashes.
Yet, the authors warn that people who are experiencing natural hair follicle loss would not see the same effects from this treatment. Alopecia universalis is caused by an unusual immune system attack on hair follicles, and tofacitinib appears to turn off this reaction without impacting standard function of the immune cells.
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alopecia universalis and alopecia areata are not the same as common male pattern baldness
“alopecia universalis and alopecia areata are not the same as common male pattern baldness”
That’s right, Alopecia is autoimmune, normal male pattern baldness is genetic. Can’t really do much about genes, some people are simply more fortunate than others.
It is called ‘work’.
But as most commercials warn it may cause, rectal bleeding, high blood pressure, warts, headache, ear nodules, excessive large lips, swollen tongue, ingrown toe nails and maybe diarrhea but man what a head of hair. I always thought it funny that as we men get older we have no problem growing hair on our ears, back, ankles tops of our feet and inside our nose.
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