Children with JIA can develop uveitis at any time, even when their arthritis is not active.  For some children with JIA,  the arthritis inflammation becomes quiet, but they have continued uveitis requiring treatments. Similarly, arthritis can flare up at unpredictable times as well. The inflammation isn’t ‘switching back and forth’- the inflammation of JIA can involve different areas at different times.This is the reason that it is important for children with arthritis to have eye examinations as recommended by the pediatric rheumatologist and ophthalmologist even when a child appears to be well! In patients with both uveitis and arthritis we always try to select treatments that are effective for both areas of inflammation.