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Rhuemo suspects daughter has arthritis in her jaw. she is already on methotrexate so if methotrexate shows she does what is the standard treatment?
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Combination therapy: We frequently combine medications to increase benefit in patients with inflammatory arthritis. Depending on your daughter's present Methotrexate dose the next step mght be increasing the dose or changing to injected methotrexate, if problems continue Hydroxychloroquine or sulfasalazine can be dded to the methotrexate. The next step after that for refractory disease is biologic therapy.
Answered 1/10/2015
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