Ringworm Selsun Blue

Ringworm Selsun Blue

Ringworm of the scalp is most commonly caused by a fungus. This is one of the most tenacious types of Ringworm infections. Adults can be carriers of Ringworm.  This also true of children, but is not seen as often.  Carriers can pass Ringworm on to others but do not have symptoms of the disease. You may not know it even if it is present.

According to statistics, seven percent of the population of the United States is affected by this type of Ringworm infection. This particular type more easily affects the children in the age group of four years to fifteen years of age than any other age group. People affected with diabetes or cancer, are also more vulnerable to attack from this form of Ringworm.  Scalp Ringworm may often be confused with other skin conditions.

What treatment is best for Scalp Ringworm?  According to some using a medicated shampoo is best to get rid of Ringworm, Selsun Blue is one of those. The selenium sulfide, and zinc pyrithione ingredients found in Selsun Blue, Head & Shoulders and similar shampoos have the capability of eliminating the ringworm spores. There are also shampoos available that contain tea tree oil which is a much lauded home remedy for Ringworm.

Scalp ringworm or ringworm of the beard may look like dandruff with flakes of dead skin on the hair or beard. There may be areas of round or oval patches of baldness. The skin under the hair or beard may be itchy, red, and peeling. The hair becomes brittle with infection and breaks off near the root as fungi invade the hair. The result is patches of baldness. In head area infection cases of Scalp ringworm hair loss is a likely possibility.  The infection can spread gradually and cover quite a large area.

The infection easily spreads through close physical contact or by touching common items.  Person to person, ringworm often spreads through direct skin-to-skin contact with an infected individual. Object to person, ringworm can spread through contact with objects or surfaces that an infected person or animal has touched, such as clothing, towels, bed linens, combs or brushes. Do not share these items.  This often how ringworm infections are spread among family members, in schools and day-care centers and re-infection occurs.  Children can contract ringworm by grooming or petting an animal with ringworm. As seen with humans, animals can carry the infection and exhibit any obvious signs.