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My son has a circle on his tongue, white-ish in the middle and red around it. is this ringworm? his is 2 years old

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No: Ringworm does not effect the tongue. What you are likely seeing is a patchy loss of some of the older tongue surface cells which happens from time to time. It can produce a rather odd appearance to the tongue. The common term for the issue is "geographic tongue" as it often looks like continents separated by oceans (oxymetazoline).

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Answered 5/15/2018

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