infection help!!!

[p83]

there are two patchy injection under my chin area. it started out as a dime size. i have one about dime size and another about 1inch in diameter, they are sort of round shaped. there is no irritation, no redness no flakiness, no itchy rash rashes it simply bald area, smooth, i touch it i can feel little white hair. the day i shave i can see very light red rash i m not sure if it happen because i shave. but when i have more hair on my beard i do not see the redness it is very annoying because it is visible a day after i shave and i cannot have hair on my beard or this two patches are visible and looks bad

now my doctor gave me Fougera Clotrimazole and betamethasone dipropionate cream USP 1%/0.05%(base), i also just started using  Fougera Clindamycin Phosphate gel USP, 1%(equivalent to 1% clindamycin. i have been using the first one for past three month twice a day and it is almost having no affect. the area is increasing and i m afraid it will get bigger and it is. what should i do? any recommendations on what i should use to get rid of it? can you recommend any medicine/cream??


i would really appreciate the help.

[Alan Rockoff, MD]

This does not sound like a yeast or fungus or any other kind of infection.  It sounds like a condition called alopecia areata.  No one knows the cause of this, but the hairs disappear for a few months, and most of the time they grow back by themselves.  Creams don't do anything one way or the other.  I suggest you see a specialist who can tell you for sure.

Take care.

Dr. Rockoff

[p83]

what kind of specialist i should look for?? plz advice thank you