Question: I am a moderately active, slightly overweight woman who for 14 months has suffered from an itchy, extremely dry scalp. I've consulted dermatologists, but their treatments haven’t helped. I recently turned to herbal medicine and have had some itching relief from tea tree oil and shampoo, but it has done nothing to treat the underlying condition. I am also in the process of a detox program. If it is caused by toxins, I hope this will begin to address the problem. Do you have any suggestions?
Dr. Hibberd's Answer:
Dry, healthy scalp and diseased scalp have very different recommendations. Usually problems such as yours are localized and do not reflect internal disease and ingestion of "toxins," so don’t waste your money on detox programs. Sometimes a dermatologist can send a scalp scraping to the lab for pathological examination and fungal stain and culture to aid further evaluation and treatment.
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