Use this medication for the full amount of time prescribed by your doctor even if you begin to feel better. Your symptoms may improve before the infection is completely healed. Clotrimazole and betamethasone topical is not approved for use in children younger than 12 years of age. It must be used very cautiously, as directed by a doctor, to treat any child.
Children have a much greater response to topical steroid medications.
Avoid getting this medication in your eyes, nose, or mouth. Clotrimazole is an antifungal medication. Clotrimazole topical prevents fungus from growing on your skin. Betamethasone is a topical steroid that reduces itching, swelling, and redness of the skin. Betamethasone and clotrimazole topical is used to treat fungal skin infections such as athlete's foot, jock itch, and ringworm.