Tinea capitis

Incidence:

• Ringworm of the scalp occurs in children exclusively
• Mainly due to M. canis or Trichophyton tonsurans

• It invades the hair cuticle  (ectothrix infection), causing pink, scaling patches on the scalp skin
• Scalp ringworm caused by T. schoenleini, invades the interior of the hair shaft (endothrix) and causes intense inflammation on the scalp, with swelling, pus formation and scalp scarring.
• Favus: Causes crusting on the surface of the skin, combined with hair loss

• There is patchy loss of hair (only broken hair) with variable degrees of inflammation (to differentiate from alopaecia areata – no inflammation and total loss of hair from the root)
• It is easily spread by the sharing of hairbrushes.

Diagnosis:

• Infected areas sometimes fluoresce a light green under long-wave UVR (Wood’s light)

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