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Yellow Dried Material Coming From Head. Anything Harmful?
hi my head has some yellow dried goo material coming out of it but i don't feel any fluid to suggest that something is leaking out of my head but it has already happened twice to me today once in the morning so i scratched it off and took a shower then once when i was at college what could this mysterious stuff be and can it be harmful? Oh and what usually causes it?
Tue, 5 Nov 2013
Hi yellow dried material coming out of scalp can be pityriasis amanticaeae.it is kind of fungal infection effecting dry scalp.it can be cured by alternate day application of ionax t shampoo and application of kersol c lotion twice daily can cure the condition.use of broad spectrum antibiotic twice daily can cure thre secondary infection
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