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What helps the quickest - best with pityrosporum folliculitis ? on the checks - and chin
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Ketoconazole: Topical, or do like physicians -- a 400 mg tablet before you exercise to the point of being drenched in your sweat, and let the sweat cover you for an hour, repeat monthly. There's a bunch of other things that work as well.
Answered 9/28/2016
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