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Can you use hydrocortisone valerate cream usp,0.2% forward ringworm?
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No: the hydrocortisone cream may fade the ring worm but it will not cure it. Ringworm is a fungus and needs an anti fungal like clotrimazole
Answered 11/21/2016
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