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Hi, I'm Dr. Neal Schultz, host of DermTV, creator and founder of BeautyRX Skincare and we're here today in my Manhattan office and I'm gonna tell you about the remedy for white dots on your skin. Now you may say well where do I get white dots from. You can get white dots from a lot of different things but today we're gonna talk specifically about the white dots that you get from a very fancy fungus called Tinea versicolor. Sounds real fancy but in fact it's real common and it usually occurs on the upper chest, on the back, top of your shoulders, the upper arms, sometimes even on your neck and because the fungus has a special chemical that stops your skin from making its normal pigment. Instead of your skin being evenly colored regardless of whether you're light toned or dark toned, wherever the fungus is you get a much whiter colored spot which looks like white spots on the areas, on the areas I described. Now in addition to the white spots usually there's a little fine flaking around the edge of the white spot and that's one of the ways that you know that your Tinea versicolor fungal infection is active so if you want to get rid of these white spots you've got to kill that fungus and there a lot of ways to do it. A lot, the easiest ways to do it really consist of using over-the-counter shampoos. Shampoos that have zinc or selenium in them like Selsun or even Head and Shoulders can easily remove this fungus but there's also a prescription shampoo called Nizoral shampoo or ketoconazole shampoo which you need a prescription from your doctor but why am I talking about shampoos for treating spots and dots because they are so many of them that if you had to treat them with a cream or a lotion, number one you'd go crazy but number two you'd probably miss some because you just wouldn't get it everywhere and as a result the infection would continue and the white spots would continue. When you're using a shampoo you'll lather up, leave the lather on for 5 or 10 minutes, do it 10 days in a row and that lather because it so easily spreads and affects all the skin that's infected easily kills the fungus. So you get up the next day, you get up the 11th day, you look around and what do you see the white spots are still there. How do you know you don't still have the fungus? Do you remember that the fine flaking or scaling I told you about around the edge of the white spot, as long as that's not there you can be sure the fungus is killed and if you give it enough time and even if you get a little sun exposure, can you imagine a dermatologist talking about sun exposure. If you get a little sun exposure that will help the skin repigment it but be patient, you can be sure as long as the flaking isn't there around the edge of the white spots that the infection has been cured. So if you have white spots or white dots on your body and they're caused by Tinea versicolor, there is an easy solution, not expensive, easy to do, works every time. I'm Dr. Neal Schultz and thanks for watching today.