Ringworm Treatment

 

       According to a report from Trinidad and Tobago's Newsday, scalp ringworm is slowly and steadily increasing, especially among the school children.

Here is an account of the mother of a 5 year old...

After finding a circular patch on her son’s scalp, Paula James, mother of a five year old boy, tried many home remedies to get rid of the scaly patches. My son’s teacher always complained about the rash on his scalp. Eventually his hair started to fall off and there was a bald spot on the area where the rash had formed,” James said.

"People prescribed a lot of for me to use. I used herbal treatments, whitfield ointment, apple cider vinegar and even antifungal shampoos and creams. Nothing worked.” Sometimes it would go away for a while, but whenever he got a hair cut it would recur.“Eventually I suspected it was a fungus from his barber because my younger son who doesn’t get his hair cut does not have the fungus,” said James. “ I took my son to the skin specialist where it was confirmed that he had ring worm of the scalp.”

You can read the entire story here.

Most of the people try self treatment and many times it works fine. But there are instances when nothing works. In such a case, it is

important to go to a skin specialist so that he can diagnose and give the correct treatment.


 


Comments

Michelle

Sun, 25 May 2008 19:28:49

Did treatment work for your son? I dealt with this infection and oral medication did slow down the spreading but was not making it go away. The medication is not good to take more than approximately 3 months due to harshness on the liver. After a month of this harsh medicine not working, I saw a sports medicine specialist. He informed me that sugar feeds fungus. The medicine was working but each time I put sugar in my body I was allowing the fungus to over power the medicine. I eliminated sugar from my diet. I saw a difference within a couple of days. My hair grew back, I continued to get my scalp checked every 6 months for a few years and all is good. Hope this helps someone and Good Luck!

 



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