Flakes might appear darker or brown in people with dark skin tones. Scabs or sores. Scratching an itchy scalp repeatedly or with a lot of force can lead to bleeding, open sores or scabs. Sensitivity.

A doctor who presumed an irregular patch of skin on her scalp behind her left ear was eczema was later diagnosed with skin cancer. Dr. Susannah Hills, a pediatric airway surgeon at the Columbia ...

Scabs can look horrible, but don’t worry – they’re meant to. Sometimes pus forms which can give scabs a yellow rather than reddish-brown colour, and might suggest that an infection is brewing.

“During flowering (anthesis) warm, wet weather with high relative humidity will favor the development of Fusarium head blight (scab),” she said. “Fusarium head blight (FHB) is caused by the fungus ...