There's seems to be a rash of rashes going around town. Yesterday I saw the same rash from three patients. I knew immediately what it was as it was one that I usually see only every couple of months.
This epidemic rash was none other than tinea cruris, a.k.a, "jock itch." I believe I've said this before here, but dermatology is one of my least favorite parts of family medicine. Skin conditions are either mundane and boring or icky and disgusting. Jock itch unfortunately qualifies as both.
Days like this I can only sit back and chuckle about using my years of training to stomp out such disabling and debilitating disease. Oh, the glory of the job. At the end of the day though, I know that my patients left the office feeling better. What I considered a trivial rash they needed reassurance that it wasn't cancer, MRSA, and they needed some fix for the incessant itching.
The Country Doctor
This epidemic rash was none other than tinea cruris, a.k.a, "jock itch." I believe I've said this before here, but dermatology is one of my least favorite parts of family medicine. Skin conditions are either mundane and boring or icky and disgusting. Jock itch unfortunately qualifies as both.
Days like this I can only sit back and chuckle about using my years of training to stomp out such disabling and debilitating disease. Oh, the glory of the job. At the end of the day though, I know that my patients left the office feeling better. What I considered a trivial rash they needed reassurance that it wasn't cancer, MRSA, and they needed some fix for the incessant itching.
The Country Doctor