My 7yo has it quite badly. I've been treating it with Daktarin Gold, morning and night, from Tuesday to Friday and it was slowly getting better. He's been at his Dad's for the weekend and his Dad has been using Chemists' Own brand anti-fungal - morning and night (but I think it should have been 5x a day because it's not the gold stuff).

He has a spot on his arm about 5cm round which is getting better slowly. But the three spots on his torso are worse. And the one on his elbow... it looks awfully painful and has grown from about a 20c piece on Friday to about 6cm round and all over the elbow when I saw him tonight.

I'm taking him to the doctor tomorrow...

Does anyone have any good-news stories about ringworm? What did you use to treat it? How often did you treat it? How long did it take to go away? And (apart from grog) how do I get "over" it???