Is tinea capitis and tinea Alba intractable in children

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When the child grows tinea capitis, it's a worry for parents, and the child will also be more painful. The itching of tinea capitis makes the child can't help scratching, and it's easy to cause infection. Now I'll share with you whether tinea capitis and tinea Alba are difficult to treat.

Is tinea capitis and tinea Alba intractable in children

First, hair removal treatment, if the scope of tinea capitis is very small, manual hair removal treatment can be used, that is, flat tip tweezers are used to pull out the hair along the direction of hair growth in the lesion area against the root. All normal hair within 3mm around the lesion area should also be removed to avoid the spread of the lesion. Then clean the part and apply 2% iodine once a day. In this way, once a week, continuous 3-4 times, and often wash your hair, apply 5% sulfur ointment once a week. If the lesion area is large, X-ray can be used to make the hair loose and easy to remove. But this method must have certain technical equipment, and is not suitable for all patients, so it is rarely used at present.

Second, the comprehensive treatment of griseofulvin is oral administration of griseofulvin, combined with external use of 2% iodine or 5% sulfur ointment, shampoo every day, and haircut every 1-2 weeks. This method is suitable for all types of tinea capitis, but the contraindications and side effects of drugs should be paid attention to, and the liver function should be reexamined during taking medicine. The dosage of griseofulvin was adjusted according to the severity of the disease. For smaller lesions of tinea flavum and tinea alba, it should also be combined with manual hair removal treatment, so as to reduce the dosage of oral medicine, so as to avoid the possible side effects.

Third, cut off the route of transmission, if found a tinea capitis patients, should take appropriate isolation measures. For example, children suffering from tinea capitis should not go to kindergartens or primary schools for the time being. They should not return to collective life until they are completely cured. It should also be avoided to infect family members or other children at home. At the same time, the hats, headscarves, pillows and quilts used by patients should be disinfected by means of sun exposure and boiling water. The contaminated hairdressing tools should also be thoroughly disinfected. They can be boiled and disinfected. They can also be placed in closed containers and fumigated with formaldehyde gas. The hair, scales and scab with bacteria should be destroyed by fire.

matters needing attention

For tinea capitis, every child is susceptible, so tinea capitis often spread in kindergartens or primary schools. Prevention of tinea capitis is not to take medicine, but to strengthen publicity and education, so that children develop good health habits, and often check the child's head, if found suspicious, should be timely to the hospital for treatment.