Checking her scalp, I found a huge ugly area of a fungus that looks like favus. it is yellowish and also called honey comb. It also attacks the root of the hair, and in that case stops it from growing entirely! Mom has cancer, obviously, or i would not write here, and the course of antibiotics she had had to take due to infections does not exactly make a good point from which to take antimyotics /antifungal antibiotics--they damage her liver even more. There is always one more complication each week and yes, my scalp feels itchy now and I do not have a health insurance that will pay a wig for myself if i caught it from her...of course I told her to mention this to her MD months ago. Just one more thing that she found too bothersome to deal with or remember long enough to look at her note of symptoms when seeing her MD, (don't live near her and only come during complication times or major apopintments) and that could make all of us ill, consequently, as this is highly contageous. Yep I am mad at her because I have told her and there is nothign else I can do but remind her. I am also mad at her MD because I always have to examine her head to tow on each visit and scoop up possible side effects myself.
Anything that has touched the scalp is infected--that inculdes furniture, all her hair flying around, dandruff whreever it setteled, and most importantly her wig which I doubt can be washed in boiling hot water and otherwise will keep reinfecting. Any disinfecting ideas? Any non-toxic-treatment options? What can I do in case I've got it--it's hard to check a head that has so much hair on it ?