3 Common Fungal Infections in Summer You Must Not Ignore | Dermatologist Explains

Added: 2026-05-01

[00:00:00]Three common fungal infections which you must know in this summer before you spread it to yourself and to others. The first is called as tinea. We also call it as ringworm. You must have seen this in the form of scaly red patch and it increases in size. You may see it on the face, you may get it on the hands, you may get it mostly on the groin, under [music] the chest, even on the feet and on the legs. The second we call it as tinea versicolor. In Marathi we call it as sibla. [music] It is like a absolutely asymptomatic brownish or whitish patch which you must have seen in sports people or teenagers who don't bathe well. So, you know, on the chest we have seen that, on the back you can get it even on the face in the form of very fine scaly of white kind of color, but they are non-itchy and that is why it gets absolutely ignored for months together till we see the entire back filled up with the fungal infection.