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Area Of The Skin Post Ring Worm Treatment Has Turned Purple After Stopping Medicine. Side Effect?
I had ring worm recently, and I cured it with some over the counter medicine. However, it did not appear to completely go away, so I saw a dermatologist who then told me that the ring worm was gone and the rest was just a minor skin infection . I was prescribed medicine, which ran out yesterday after over a month of use. This morning the part of my skin which had been infected in now purple. Is this just a minor side effect of stopping the medicine, or should I return to the doctor?
Wed, 7 Aug 2013
Area of skin turning purple or black is only due to post ringworm infection.sometimes if we use steriods for treatment it may turn purple and striae are seen
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