Tinea Capitis
October 2022
in “
The Journal of Family Practice
”
TLDR Tinea capitis is a scalp fungal infection in children that can cause hair loss, scaling, and other symptoms.
The document describes cases of tinea capitis, a fungal infection of the scalp, in children. It highlights different presentations: a young Black boy with alopecia, erythema, scaling, and an enlarged posterior cervical lymph node; another young Black boy with white patches of scale but no obvious hair loss, confirmed by a positive potassium hydroxide preparation; and a Latina girl with a subtle infection marked by comma hairs.
