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I am 83 years old army veteran, about 83 years old sikh. Suffering from scalp dandruff (white scales falling while combing, redness of scalp skin, frequent itching, at times resulting in scalp skin injury/slight bleeding for short time) for the last 30 years 9 months treatment at bakson homeopathic clinic (cost rs. 14,000/-) did not help. Army hospital alopathic treatment withpropysalic (clobetasol propionate) lotion, desonide (dosetil) lotion, urea &lactic acid cream, ketoconazole lotion, scalp shampoo, candid tv shampoo, coal tar shampoo (from usa ), heads & shoulders shampoo (used for 4-5 yrs), pnatene shampoo (used for 4-5 yrs) has not helped. Now trying ketoconazole and zinc pyrithione lotion (kz plus lotion), mometasone furoate & terbinafine hydrochloride topical solution. Dandruff has resulted in thinning of hair. Preset suffering from osteoporosis arthritis and taking me ficinies like ca, coq 10, glucosamine chondroitin, bifos e5 (alendronate sodium) etc. I had undergone cabg surgery about 22 years ago and taking presently monotrate 10 mg bd, aspirin 75 mg of bp medicine diltiazem hydrochloride 90 mg tab od. Request advice to get rid of this problem.
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try ciclopirox shampoo sir as ketoconazole becomes resistant after some time. u can use steroid lotions but need to taper it slowly
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