Scalp Treatments--Member Suggestions

[tcmgpt13]

If a scalp fungus is suspected sometimes OTC nizoral shampoo will help. This could be alternated with shampoos like selsun blue (the mint version seems to work best) or head and shoulders. There are stronger versions of Selsun Blue and Nizoral but a doctor's script is needed. I believe that prescription strength Nizoral and Selsun Blue may be available OTC in Canada:

Originally Posted by tcmgpt13

Polly, I thought you might like to look at this which was a search I did on a derm site. Does your daughter's hair look like any of this? If so it could be a type of yeast infection called white piedra caused by yeast from the Trichosporon species. As it mentions on this page sometimes this is also found on groin and axillary hair of the body, less commonly on the scalp though if involved it can grow on the hair shaft too:

dermatlas.med.jhmi.edu/derm/files/WHITE_PIEDRA.htm

Here's medscapes discussion of trichosporon infections:

emedicine.medscape.com/article/230705-overview

I am so sorry to hear that your little daughter has been affected by these symptoms too. It's hard enough when we are sick, but when we hear of young children suffering well, that's never good news to hear.

To answer one of your questions, I am not sure that when you feel nearly recovered it's a stage. A lot of us experience this, but then quite often something else will come to the surface, sometimes bringing back old symptoms or in other cases new ones. So far there is no total cure and remissions while present allow us to enjoy life more fully. I think it's extremely important when feeling better not to overdo so that periods of nearly normal health last longer. Until we know more it's very hard to predict when health will cycle down again nor do we truly understand what the triggers for these up and down cycles are.