patients work up a sweat after taking ketoconazole for tinea versicolor

February 2004

Some dermatologists have patients work up a sweat after taking ketoconazole for tinea versicolor...to concentrate the drug in the skin.

Patients take 400 mg of ketoconazole...work up a sweat... then avoid showering for at least 4 hours.

Ketoconazole gets into the sweat rapidly...within an hour.

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