Prevention
Advice often given includes:
- Avoid sharing clothing, sports equipment, towels, or sheets.
- Washing clothes in hot water with fungicidal soap after suspected exposure to ringworm.
- Avoid walking barefoot, instead wear appropriate protective shoes in locker rooms and sandals at the beach.
- After being exposed to places where the potential of being infected is great, one should wash with an antibacterial and anti-fungal soap or one that contains tea tree oil, which contains terpinen-4-ol.
- Avoid touching pets with bald spots as they are often carriers of the fungus.
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Famous quotes containing the word prevention:
“... if this world were anything near what it should be there would be no more need of a Book Week than there would be a of a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.”
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)