Such advice should be obtained from a physician or other appropriate health care provider. The rash to tinea, be it of the scalp or someplace else on your child's body, is round to oval in shape, is often scaly, and may have a slightly raised ring surrounding it. The central area is smooth and may look like normal skin. If in the scalp, your child may lose hair in the area of the ring. The rash is not itchy, and your child may not even know it's there.
Ringworm is spread from person to person.
When treating tinea, particularly tinea capitis, it's important for the child's close family members, playmates, and schoolmates to be checked. And nearly one third of the children had at least one positive culture during the 16 months of the study. Yet these children had no symptoms. The children most likely to be asymptomatic carriers were siblings or close playmates of children with tinea capitis. This may mean that the children who showed symptoms kept picking it up from the siblings or friends.