How can I get rid of really bad dandruff?
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1. Use a good shampoo- alternate between a coal-tar based product (smells nasty, works great!), a decent dandruff/psorasis shampoo, and a 'daily clarifying' or baby shampoo. Alternating is important because your scalp will get used to just one version, and the baby/clarifyin shampoo will prevent build-up of chemicals. Follow the directions on the shampoo- you usually need to leave it in place for a while.\n\n2. Do not over-stimulate your scalp. Lots of scrubbing, combing, or brushing the scalp will scour off the old crust, but that just stimulates new crust growth. Leave the crust alone and let the chemicals work on it. If you feel you HAVE to sour/brush hard, do it before shampooing with the coal-tar product and then let the stuff sit in place for a bit.\n\n3. Do not over-wash your hair. Oddly enough, too clean of hair often has worse dandruff than hair that is only washed a couple-three times a week. You can rinse it between times with just water when you shower.\n\n4. Check out the various anti-dandruff websites or medical sites rather than entrusting your health to the sorts of random answers you can get in places like this.
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stress and deppression triggers dandruff and hairfall.\nso if you want to prevent it...you should always take life easy... enjoy and have lots of fun...\num,and don't forget to sleep atleast 8 hours a day and 8 glasses of water within the day.\nsleep plenty...\neat and drink healthy...\nand always be happy!!! ^___^
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I got your solution, and it may be out of left-field. Your problem is not natural dandruff, but conditioner. Yes, you are suffering from buildup, not dandruff.\n\nMy solution is to condition once-a-week, and use CLARIFYING shampoo once a week. Condition your hair preferably after clarifying. \n\nHead & Shoulders and other dandruff shampoo like that clean the scalp, but the medicines in them may actually inflame and cause more dandruff.\n\nIf you follow what I just wrote, you are guaranteed to eliminate dandruff, providing you wash your hair regularly, of course.\n\nSuave sells clarifying shampoo for a buck and it works well.
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If it's not ordinary dandruff maybe you should go to see a doctor...\n\nBut otherwise I would suggest you to visit a drug store and buy special shampoo made for getting rid of dandruff, other than head 'n' shoulder, since it doesn't seem to be working on you...\n\n"Dandruff can in some cases be linked to poor nutrition, particularly deficiencies in the mineral zinc", from Wikipedia...\n\nTake care!
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soap and water\nlather and scrub well\napply deoderant\n\nif this doesn't work see a doctor.
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Mix 2 teaspoons pure vinegar in 6 teaspoons water and apply it on the scalp before going to bed. Tie a towel around the head. Wash your head next morning. After shampooing, rinse again with vinegar water. Treat your hair like this once a week for at least three months.\nMix 1 teaspoons lemon juice with 2 teaspoons vinegar and massage on the scalp. Wash your hair with an egg shampoo.\nTake 1 part almond oil, 1 part pure sulphur powder, 2 parts 'surgical spirit' and 4 parts distilled water or rose water and mix well. Rub on the scalp.\nTake 2 cup water, add 4-5 tablespoons dried thyme and boil for 10 minutes. Cool, strain, and use the mixture to massage scalp. Keep for half an hour.\nDissolve 2 aspirins in any dandruff shampoo and wash your hair.\nMassage the scalp with almond oil. Dip a towel in boiling water and wrap it around the hair. Repeat it thrice or four times when the towel gets cold.\nMake a shampoo by mixing 100 g each of amla (Indian goose berry), reetha, and shikakai, and boil in two litre of water until the liquid reduces to half. Use this shampoo for one month. Dandruff will vanish and your hair will become thick.\nGrind fenugreek (methi) seeds soaked in water overnight. Massage this paste on scalp and hair and leave it for 15-20 minutes. Wash it off with a mild shampoo.\nWash your hair with warm apple cider vinegar. Then cover your head with a towel or a shower cap and leave for about 30-40 minutes. Rinse with plain water. Repeat 2 times a week until your dandruff goes away.\nMix 100 g witch hazel and 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice in 200 ml water. Shampoo your hair and apply with cotton to the scalp when the hair are still wet. Repeat several times until the dandruff is treated.\nTry a shampoo with selenium sulfide or salicylic acid.
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if you feel that its not that serious then most anti-dandruff shampoos will do the trick, but if it doesn't help, try consulting your doctor for the right medication that is usually precribed to combat that itchy dandruff. also, I used to have a serious dandruff problem, but as i found out for myself, just finding for the right hair care that is natural to your hair and sticking with it can cure that dandruff problem.
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Hi Zeenia\n\nHere are some remedies.\n\nCause\nIt is frequently due to digestive disturbances, and is highly related to the general health of the entire body.\n\nThe most common cause of dandruff is seborrheic dermatitis, a mild scalp inflammation with excessive fatty secretions that usually starts as dry or greasy scaling of the skin, but may progress to yellow-red scaling bumps along the hairline, behind the ears, in the ear canals, on the eyebrows, on the bridge of the nose, in the folds around the nose, or on the breastbone. Don`t pick or your scratch scalp, as this will only exacerbate your condition.\n\nWhen infants get dandruff, it is called cradle cap, which is a yeast problem. Many skin experts in Europe consider dandruff in adults to also be a yeast problem. In other words, dandruff is often an external symptom of an internal problem. Therefore, dandruff treatments can be similar to those for treating candidiasis.\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nNatural Cures for Dandruff\n\nAromatherapy: Patchouli, rosemary, and/or tea tree oil can be massaged into the scalp.\n\nDiet: Increase raw foods as part of an overall organic, whole foods diet. Also eat more salads and green vegetables, avoid fried foods, and significantly reduce your intake of fats, sugar, dairy products, chocolate, seafood, and nuts.\n\nFlower Essences: Crab Apple can help with feelings of poor self-image due to dandruff.\n\nHerbs: Rinse your hair and scalp with a strong infusion of nettle, sage, and rosemary, and drink a cup of nettle tea and take evening primrose oil (three capsules) daily.\n\nHomeopathy: Arsen alb., Graphites, Lycopodium, Thuja, Sepia, Sulfur, and Cantharis are useful homeopathic remedies for dandruff.\n\nNutritional Supplementation:\nThe following nutrients are all useful for helping to prevent and reverse dandruff: vitamin B6, vitamin A, vitamin B complex, essential fatty acids (particularly omega-6), vitamin C, vitamin E, beta carotene, and zinc. Kelp tablets can also help.\n\nTopical Treatment: Soak your hair in a warm apple cider vinegar solution, the wrap your head in a towel. After one hour, wash your hair. In addition, you can apply vitamin E oil to your scalp each night for three weeks. Tea tree oil shampoo is also recommended.\n\nBest of health to you\n\nCheers
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bathe your body with a "dandruff" shampoo like Selsun Blue or Head and Shoulders for about two weeks.  Make sure you let the shampoo sit on your skin for five minutes or so.  You usually do not need medication.  If this doesn't work, you can buy a big tube of Lamisil or Lotramin and use this cream on the affected areas of your body twice a day for a couple of weeks.  Tinea versicolor is caused by weak bugs and is usually easy to kill.  Happy Hunting!
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My son had this problem.  The dermatoligist told him to wash his hair with a dandruff shampoo.  Something to do with oil from his hair.  Has been several years since then, and he has no problems now.
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For one........don't over wash your hair!\nYour body produces natural oils for a reason.\nWash in the P.M. then allow the night oils to help the scalp, skip days if possible.\n\nMixing Mayonaise and pure olive oil into a conditioner then put your head and rub in.Wrap your head in a moist hot towel for 1/2 hour. Rinse gently in warm water, do not shampoo. and leave overnight. Shampoo lightly in the A.M if you have to.\nIf that fails after multiple trys..... Head and Shoulders has a 2 in 1 for dry scalp with menthol to sooth the itch.\nAsk you doctor if you may be suffering from allergies as well.
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yup, but it's not called dandruff anymore, it's just scaling skin...or flaking skin or dry skin...whichever name you like.
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hey if u got this major problem of dandruff... n the shampoo which has been prescribed by the doc, nt wrking 4 u.. so do one thing.. use some harbal shampoos n whn ever u will get time in the evening... thn do massag in ur hairs with coconet oil n lemon mix mixer.. it will surely help u... otherwise wash ur hairs with curd... n dont use hot water to wash ur hairs... if u r washing ur hairs with cold water thn continue this.. cz dandruff is the symptom by washing ur hairs with hot water.. n dont forget to massag ur hairs before sleep...
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Shampoos with coal tar (Neutrogena T/gel is one example) and Nizoral work very well.Both are available over the counter. Usual method is to shampoo with the medicated shampoo every day until the flakes come under control then once or twice per week to keep them under control. \n\nListerine, the mouthwash, has been used for dandruff for years (and used to be advertised for this purpose). Massage it full-strength onto your scalp every day. Supposed to get rid of dandruff in a few days. You can also apply a dilute vinegar rinse to your hair before using regular shampoo.
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It could be caused by stress and your diet(if you eat alot of sugars and salts)......\njust keep looking for different shampoos and definietly condiditiors BUT the reason why you can't find one that 'works' is that you should NOT wash your hair EVERYday (no its not unsatitary or gross) it lets the NATURAL oils of the scalp absorb into the hair giving it hydration if you wash your hair everday then your drying out your scalp and not letting theses oils settle in try washing your hair every other day and retry some of the dandruff hair products b/c you might find them to work now if you follow the advice of how much to wash your hair (use hot/warm water also!). This has actually been helpful to alot of people that i've told. Remedies probably could be looked up on google...let me see....Aloe vera Thoroughly rub a thick gel of aloe vera leaves into the scalp; leave overnight; shampoo in the morning.\n\nApple cider vinegar Apple cider vinegar will help restore the proper acid/alkaline balance of the scalp and kill a bacteria that clogs the pores that release oil to the scalp. The clogged pores result in scales and crusts being formed. Apply apple cider vinegar diluted 50% with water to the scalp and let dry. There is no need to rinse. Another similar remedy suggests pouring two tablespoons into a cup, applying the straight vinegar to the scalp, and leaving it on from 15 minutes to three hours before shampooing. Lemon juice may also be used. It is the acid in these remedies that helps bring the scalp back into chemical balance.\n\nCoconut oil Rub some pure coconut oil in your hair daily. The dandruff should clear up in a few days.\n\nGrapefruit seed extract Mix 7-10 drops with the normal amount of shampoo you use. Massage into your hair and leave on for at least 2 minutes. Rinse thoroughly with water, avoiding contact with eyes. \n\nListerine For mild cases of dandruff, use the mouthwash Listerine. It has antiseptic properties. Do not use on cases where the skin is broken as the Listerine can be irritating.\n\nIf any of this doesn't help see a doctor (best if a dermotologist)they can probably give great product and procedure advice. Good luck!\n\n***************If you found this helpful press "best answer" it will give points to both me and you. Thanks :)!**************
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Depends if you have dry scalp condition---white flakes on scalp. \n\nTry massaging a hydrating hair tonic or herbal oil (like coconut or sesame seed oil) deep into the scalp, pressing your fingers and moving the scalp around. If it does not cure, see a doctor.
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It's actually not dry scalp. It's oily scalp that causes dandruff. Use head and shoulders or you can try natural junk like apple cider vinegar, or rubbing salt to break apart dead skin.