Deucravacitinib is a picky， specifically for this thing called Tyrosine Kinase 2 (TYK2). It’s super important for our immune system. It’s made to help with that flaky skin thing we call plaque psoriasis, and it’s for when it’s pretty bad.
You get these tablets with a special coating, and each one has 6 mg of the stuff that works. You’re supposed to take one tablet a day, don’t worry about eating with it. Each bottle has 30 tablets, which is cool because it makes it easier to keep up with your treatment.How deucravacitinib works is it talks to this protein called TYK2, and it helps calm down the body’s inflammatory mess that’s part of what makes psoriasis worse.
It’s like a tiny soldier that can sneak into the walls of different cells, especially immune cells. This tiny soldier stops TYK2 in both the lymphocytes and keratinocytes, which are both big players in causing psoriasis.There are some side effects, mostly because it might mess with your immune system and cause things like infections that take advantage of you, sepsis, or even raise the chances of lymphoma. You shouldn’t use this stuff if you’re allergic to it or if you’re dealing with a bug that won’t go away, unless it’s more help than it’s risky.This medication belongs to a group called JAK inhibitors that go after specific parts of our immune system.
It’s a new way to treat psoriasis, especially good for folks whose other treatments haven’t been doing the trick.
