Ringworm guide
This guide is for a simple fungal-appearing rash, not for rapidly spreading skin infection, severe pain, or widespread illness.
Start online
Ringworm is often a good online-photo condition when the rash appearance is fairly typical and there are no warning signs of bacterial infection or a more complicated skin problem.
If treatment is appropriate, your physician can send a non-controlled prescription to your pharmacy and provide portal instructions for the next step.
Quick facts
Common symptoms
May fit online care
Look for another care setting
What to have ready
What happens next
Standard
$59
Within 8 posted service hours
Priority
$99
Within 4 posted service hours
Rush
$149
Within 1 posted service hour
Start the request on the website, answer the fit questions, and choose the response window you want. If the concern still fits this service, a physician reviews it and sends a secure update after sign-in. When appropriate, non-controlled prescriptions can be sent to your pharmacy, and a basic work or school note can be included at physician discretion.
Not always. Some rashes look similar to ringworm but are actually eczema, psoriasis, or bacterial infection, so the screening and photos matter.
Those features raise more concern for bacterial skin infection, which is not the same as a simple superficial fungal rash.