Hey ladies! This is Cass from cassandrebecaai.com Today I’m coming at you with a video all about Tinea Capitis which is ringworm of the scalp and psoriasis. If you want to learn how to treat these issues, then stay tuned.

So here’s my Venn diagram where I kind of show you the differences between these issues and some of their similarity. Ringworm of the scalp to make capitis is a fungal infection while psoriasis, well scientists and doctors don’t really know exactly what causes it, but they think it’s an immune system dysfunction and it’s also something that they found to be genetic.

With Tinea Capitis, it is extremely contagious. Although they say that it’s mostly something that little kids get, don’t get it twisted, you can get it as an adult. You can come in contact with an infected animal, an infected person or even a towel, soil, anything that has it and it touches your skin. If you have a small wound on your scalp or just a scalp issue, then you’re probably more susceptible to getting Tinea Capitis. If you allow you’re your body to stay wet or if you don’t clean your scalp often you probably have a higher chance of getting today capitis.

With psoriasis, it is not contagious. This is an issue where your skin cells start to grow really fast and produce scaling and just lesions that have like a grayscale look on top of it, has a dandruff kind.

The similarities between these two is that there can be itchiness associated with them. They may occur on other parts of the body and they’re harder to treat. With Tinea Capitis; you experience symptoms of corkscrew hairs where there are patches of alopecia. They’re scaling and depending on what kind of fungus has infected your scalp. You may experience inflammation which causes you to get like a pus-filled lesions and things like that but if you have the non-inflammatory type you’ll generally experience some itching, some scaling and the patches of alopecia.

So in the treatment of ringworm of Tinea Capitis:

You will generally have to get your doctor and they’ll provide you with an oral dose of grisofulvin and there are also other kinds of oral medications like fluconazole and itraconazole. Also on top of that they recommend you use an antifungal shampoo and it’s not that the antifungal shampoo stops the fungus necessarily. It doesn’t cure it but it helps it to not spread and kind of keeps it under control. The recommendation is that when you have ringworm of the scalp you should as much as possible clean your clothes, your bedding and should try not to share anything like brushes or combs or you know anything that’s going to go near your scalp. You definitely also want to look into what was the cause of the infection like if it’s your cat that has an issue or whatever, you definitely want to put that on the control also. They recommend that when one person in the household has it, other people should use antifungal shampoos in order to kind of keep the infection under wraps.

With psoriasis;

It’s really something that’s hard to treat. They recommend using tar shampoo, salicylic acid shampoos because it’s an immune system issue or something genetic. It’s kind of hard to pin down exactly what you can do but I always feel like you should take care of your body from the inside out. It is always helpful for things like this and obviously going to see a doctor maybe even going to see a naturopathic doctor who can kind of show you what kind of diet would minimize the psoriasis, would help with both of these things are well especially ringworm I definitely recommend using topical things like essential oils that help with fungus for example using a little bit of neem oil, some of the essential oils that you would use for dandruff or seborrheic dermatitis.

So ladies if you have any questions remember, I’m not a doctor but I’m happy to show you where I’ve gotten my research and help you to understand what you might be able to do to keep these scalp issues under control. Thank you. See you soon! Bye.