Home remedies · Skin, wounds & stings
No home remedy here replaces treatment, and none is talked down. What has done good for generations does good — even if no one ever measured it. Where something is well studied, it says so. Where it is only experience, it says that too.
An anti-dandruff shampoo with zinc pyrithione, selenium disulfide or ketoconazole, two to three times a week, left on for three to five minutes. Then less often to maintain.
Behind most dandruff is a yeast that lives on every scalp and triggers a reaction in some people. The actives slow it down.
It does not cure, it keeps things in check — stop entirely and the dandruff usually returns. Washing more often alone is not enough.
With weeping, crusted areas, marked hair loss in one spot, or spread to the face, have it looked at.
See a doctor: wounds that gape, bleed heavily or are deep, bite wounds, burns larger than your own palm or with blisters on the face and joints. Likewise redness spreading quickly, especially with fever. And any mole that changes.