While sounding rather ominous, ringworm is a fungal infection, easily caught and very difficult to get rid of. Due to her constant hand sucking and scratching with sharp little fingernails, Zoe has created an ideal environment for ringworm, a nice wet warm section of sensitive cheek. We did manage to successfully treat one side, only to have the ringworm migrate over to the other cheek. This has been very frustrating for her parents, (Zoe herself shows little distress in the matter). We have been applying antifungal cream to her face religiously at night and when possible in the morning during naptime (as naptime often does not actually exist we are a bit more sporadic). To improve the time her medicine actually stays on her face before being rubbed off and most likely eaten, we resorted to our old standby- the ever-versatile sock treatment. Zoe becomes quite perplexed when her hands are placed in socks and her fingers are thus unaccessible for sucking. Score Parents 1 Ringworm 0.
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