For a couple years now I've had fairly bad flakes--as in they never let up all day long. They are particularly numerous whenever my hair is dry after I washed it. I cut my own hair with clippers and keep it very short year-round, 1/8" -1/4", so the flakes were never a problem, it seemed. No itching, no excessive amounts of it, etc.. I would try moisturizing shampoos, which wouldn't work; so I'd try dandruff shampoos, which also didn't work. But I wasn't too interested in figuring out a solution.
But in the last 6-9 mos., it's gotten worse. It never stops now, as I mentioned above. In addition, I have to rashes on my forehead now, and it seems their appearance coincided with the dry skin becoming a problem. Still, nothing is terribly itchy, certainly not routinely so. The rashes aren't crusty, they don't ooze, and they're not raised or anything. Just a mild red rash, oddly shaped, coming out from the border of scalp. So unnoticeable are they that my very nosey relatives haven't even mentioned it.
The rashes and the increasingly annoying dry scalp led me to try coal tar shampoo, thinking that I might have psoriasis or something that warranted a more special treatment. Well, not even coal tar shampoo has done anything. I still have a lot of flakes everyday I use it.
So, any ideas on what I could do to figure out what the problem is, and how to treat it? I used to think maybe I wasn't rinsing my hair thoroughly enough, so I started rinsing longer. I thought maybe I washed too much, so I washed less frequently; then I thought not washing enough, so more frequently. A lot of layman work I've done, but I haven't gone to the doctor.
I'd welcome the guesses, suggestions, etc. of anyone.
Best,
AM
PS. I just realized that my username is somewhat misleading. My head is not really that itchy, or at all.