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Scab Like Crust Behind Ear In A Child, In Yellow. Is It Dry Skin?
My little girl will be 2 in January she has scab like crust behind her ear lobe sometimes it weeps and she says its itchy, I ve replaced her studs with 9 carat gold studs incase that has anything to do with it, it s yellow in colour and I m a bit worried but don t want to look like an overprotective mum if I go doctors and its just dry skin .
Tue, 27 Aug 2013
Hi.i do not think it is only dry skin it think it is intertrigo or seborrhic dermatitis.use oral antibiotic and application of flutibact ointment can cure it
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