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A member asked:

Doctors recommend use ketoconazole shampoo use twice weekly. for seborrheic dermatitis scalp why we cant use it everyday?what shampoo for everyday ?

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Go right ahead: It's a good start for seborrhea and will help. There are a variety of others you can use in conjunction with it, including some old "natural healing" favorites -- sulfur, coal tar. You'll never cure it, but you can manage it. Best wishes.

Dr Machanic and another doctor agreed

Answered 1/1/2016

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