Towel dry, air dry, and use a hair dryer on cool to make sure your skin is dried before putting clothes on. Tinea manuum is the hand’s equivalent of athlete’s foot. Tinea manuum is a fungal ...
Tinea capitis causes hair loss, scaling, erythema, and impetigo-like lesions. It is the most common dermatophyte infection found in children under the age of 12, especially in African Americans.
SINCE Margarot and Deveze 1, studying tinea capitis in man, discovered in 1925 that infected hairs would fluoresce upon exposure to ultra-violet light, extensive use has been made of this ...