Cradle cap usually doesn't stick around for long. So what do you do if your older kid's scalp seems as crusty as ever?
. Most babies grow out of cradle cap by the time they’re three months old, but Mia’s has been hanging around well into her school years, although her thick hair mostly covers it up. When she was eight, Dupont noticed the white, crusty patches around Mia’s hairline and eyebrows, and took her to get checked out by their doctor, who prescribed a medicated shampoo. At age 10, she still has some crusty patches on her scalp, and her mom has noticed dandruff flakes in her hair.
A. Yasmine Kirkorian, a paediatric dermatologist at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC says that in school-aged kids, thick waxy patches or “scales” that stick to the hair or scalp are usually called “pityriasis amiantacea” which refers to how it looks, rather than a specific diagnosis. “It’s like super dandruff, or dandruff on steroids,” she says.
There are several conditions that cause pityriasis aminatacea, so it’s important to have your family doctor, paediatrician or dermatologist have a look so it can be treated properly. If your kiddo’s scalp is itchy, for example, it, which can be helped by over-the-counter or prescription creams. Ringworm, a fungal infection that’s fairly common in school-aged kids, can also appear on the scalp . “Ringworm can really fool you because it can look many different ways,” she says.
After the oil , wash the hair by gently massaging the scalp with an over-the-counter or prescription dandruff shampoo that contains salicylic acid, tar, zinc or selenium ingredients. “It’s often useful to rotate two or three dandruff shampoos with different ingredients: one night do this, one night do that, one night do another. The different ingredients work synergistically,” she says.
Rinse the shampoo out as usual, and condition the hair if that’s what you normally do or if the dandruff shampoo is making the hair dry or brittle. You can then gently comb your child’s hair to see if you can remove any loosened flakes, but don’t comb if the hair is breaking or falling out with the plaquesWash the hair on the same schedule you usually would, whether that’s every few days or once a week.
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