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???
My brother had it Div. He needed a prescription cream to clear it up. With the cream it cleared up in about a week. It was much less angry within 24hrs though.
We have used Lamisil (Athletes foot and fungal) It worked well. Prior to that we used Resolve/Tinea - it was ok - had to be applied 2x a day but we kept having flare ups.
Bloomin horrible things - We all ended up with them...
DS#2 ended up with one on his head that he didnt tell me about - it was quite big and he ended up with a bald patch ! aaargh
Didnt matter what I did - seemed to take ages to get rid of them - alot better once we used the Lamisil.
Both Lach and Ash had it at the same time once. I am pretty sure we just used resolve as well. They finally got over it, had a couple of flare ups which they got over too and we've never seen it again since.
My DD had it and we didn't realise it was fungal (looked more like a contact allergy type thing). In the end, when I took her for another opinion (because it had got quite bad, was weepy in one spot), the dr told us to use an anti-fungal - and (pay attention, this is the magic part) - she had to slather it on thickly over the affected area just before bed, then wrap it in clingwrap (which was easy to do because it was her leg, you would neeed to get creative with sticking it down elsewhere on the body). It's some technique that is used commonly and it's all about allowing the maximum amount of the therapeutic element to soak into the skin. It was *amazing* how quickly it worked. HTH
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