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Fungal Infection

Fungal infections are caused by fungi living on dead tissues of the body namely skin, hair and nails. There are different types of fungi causing infections, rashes and other specific symptoms at different sites in the body. They are treated by the use of anti-fungal medication.

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Can herpes infection present without blisters?

Query: Hello doctor, I have small rashes in pubic area. I masturbate with a fabric usually so thinking this might have irritated it in small scales. I used Neosporin on it and it healed. I just heard people can get herpes with mild symptoms or be asymptomatic. The itchiness at first is what worried me. No...  Read Full »


Dr. Subhash Kashyap

Answer: Hi, Welcome to icliniq.com. Scaly itchy rash in your pubic area is fungal infection exacerbated by irritation due to fabric. You have to be gentle with yourself and use ample lubrication like oil and it should not be irritating. As it is going on since 1 year as I can make out from the history you...  Read Full »

What can cause rashes under the armpit, back, and chest with no other symptoms?

Query: Hi doctor, I am a 39-year-old male. I noticed a couple of small rashes present under my armpit. Before three weeks, I got a rash on my chest and back. It was not itchy. It got spread slowly in my chest and back. I have few rashes on my upper arms. I have some different types of pimples on my butt...  Read Full »


Dr. Subhash Kashyap

Answer: Hi, Welcome to icliniq.com. You have these lesions due to a type of fungal infection called tinea versicolor. This fungus is present commonly in all people. But in some cases, it occurs in people having a lot of sweating or people taking steroids. It causes lesions on the chest and legs. You can t...  Read Full »

What could cause brown spots under armpit with stinky sweat?

Query: Hello doctor, I am a 42-year-old male, non-smoker and non-alcoholic. For the last two months, I am noticing lots of brown patches below my armpits of the left hand and nothing much on the right hand. And off late I could sense I am sweating (armpits) which I never had before. Will you please co...  Read Full »


Dr. Subhash Kashyap

Answer: Hi, Welcome to icliniq.com. What I can make out from your history is that you are having brown patches over the left armpit for two months. I want to know no other symptoms in this lesion like if they pain or burn? Are they increasing in size or same since their start? Any other family member havi...  Read Full »

What could cause fluid-filled vesicles in feet with severe itching?

Query: Hello doctor, I am having an allergic reaction on both of my feet. It will start like fluid-filled vesicle, then it will get hardened and will start peeling off the skin. There is an excess of itching in that affected area. I had consulted a dermatologist and was told that it is contact dermatitis. ...  Read Full »


Dr. Subhash Kashyap

Answer: Hi, Welcome to icliniq.com. Very itchy rash over the feet with fluid-filled vesicular lesions is tinea pedis vesicular type. No response to steroids also confirms that. Contact dermatitis also mimics it and bilateral also gives suspicion of dermatitis but you did not respond to steroids. I can see...  Read Full »

How to treat recalcitrant tinea incognito?

Query: Hello doctor, I am a known case of eczema since 4 years. My eczema subsided and later developed tinea incognito since three years. My doctor advised Itraconazole oral and topical Sertaconazole, Lulliconazole, and Eberconazole on different relapses. Initially, I was responding well with oral Itraco...  Read Full »


Dr. Subhash Kashyap

Answer: Hi, Welcome to icliniq.com. Tinea incognito is a condition when a fungal infection is treated with topical steroids the symptoms subside but the fungal growth continuous and lesions are not visible, but when the steroid application is stopped larger and resistant lesions appear. You have taken mu...  Read Full »

What could cause a stingy and sensitive rash on penis?

Query: Hello doctor, I have a rash on my penis head, it does not hurt much and it does not look severe, but it is uncomfortable and I feel very sensitive now and also it stings when I urinate but not always. Because of Covid-19 I do not want to visit a doctor, so I browsed the internet and I am afraid it i...  Read Full »


Dr. Subhash Kashyap

Answer: Hi, Welcome to icliniq.com. You have used steroid creams and a lot of antibiotics. But I do not know how it started at all? Was it itchy to start? Urine burning or after you urinate, because steroids change every morphology and just cover symptoms and signs. I want to know if there was any dischar...  Read Full »

What is the effective way to treat my recurrent skin infection?

Query: Hi doctor, I have a fungal infection for years now I believe. I have been trying to treat it back and forth since the medicines being prescribed are so expensive. Every time I see my skin healed I stop the medication. The fungal infection I first had was ringworm. Recently, my infection started ac...  Read Full »


Dr. Subhash Kashyap

Answer: Hi, Welcome to icliniq.com. Fungal infections are very difficult to treat and your case is resistant fungal infection. In such cases, I give Itraconazole as last resort only some patient respond to Itraconazole some patient respond to Terbinafine and in some both have to be given. Take Ketoconazol...  Read Full »

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