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Ringworm
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Can anyone tell me what ringworm is and how / why you get it?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I believe it is a fungal infection. I had this on my leg when I was a kid !! They reckon that I might have slid in some dogs poop when I was playing football and picked it up from that ( I was quite young mind - so they could really have told me anything !!!!). I remember having to put some stinking ointment on it - smelt worse than the aforementioned doggy poop !!
yep its a fungal infection rather than a worm.
heres the NHS info on it http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/articles/article.a spx?articleID=324
heres the NHS info on it http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/articles/article.a spx?articleID=324
yes it is a fungal infection I had it on the palm of my hand once and I got it from a hedgehog! (I have rescue hedgehogs sometimes). it started as small blisters which then broke and left very dead skin behind - it spread in a ring across my hand and I lost several layers of skin. It is treated with an anti fungal cream.
Needless to say I always wear gloves when handling hedgehogs now!
Needless to say I always wear gloves when handling hedgehogs now!