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Greetings hope all is well. topical treatment of tinea capitis in children. is topical as effective as systemic? how about pulse therapy?
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Oral therapy better: the infecting yeast gets into the hair shafts so if you just smear the medicine on top of it it will not penetrate the shaft and kill the fungus. If you take it by mouth it goes to the hair follicle via the bloodstream and has much better chance to cure.
Answered 6/9/2017
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