How to Deal with Ringworm in Cats? A Three-Month Diary of a Cat Owners Experience, From Diagnosis to Treatment, A Comprehensive Analysis!
How to Deal with Ringworm in Cats? A Three-Month Diary of a Cat Owner's Experience, From Diagnosis to Treatment, A Comprehensive Analysis!
Many families who have raised cats for the first time suddenly find that their cats start to lose hair in some parts when they buy them back. At this time, if you ask the cat seller, they will say: "Ah, it's milk ringworm. It's natural to eat a few good meals." If you search online, you will see many netizens saying "This is ringworm, which is a common disease of humans and pets. You need to treat it quickly, and then give many treatment plans." On the contrary, you are picked out. If you go to the pet hospital, the doctor will first do a "skin scraping test" and then take out a "Wood's lamp" and shine it repeatedly. Finally, he will tell you a lot of professional terms, and then prescribe a bunch of medicines. (You can buy a Wood's lamp on Taobao, and you can do a pre-examination yourself in the future).
So what exactly is ringworm? How to treat it? Lao Wang, I want to present my story with my three months of struggle.
1. Ringworm is not a disease, I almost died to cure it!
Ringworm is a fungal skin disease in cats. Almost all cat fur can be infected. Symptoms are often prototypical or oval ringworm patches, with gray scales, often accompanied by hair loss at the affected area, affecting the cat's appearance.
But cats themselves have no significant mental impact on ringworm. At most, they will scratch the affected area frequently. However, you can't tell that it's sick when it's eating and drinking. It's actually a bit like athlete's foot in humans. Except for itching, other effects are not significant...
2. Causes of ringworm
Ringworm is mostly caused by Microsporum canis and Trichophyton mentagrophytes, most of which are Microsporum canis. This fungus is mostly transmitted through the environment and human hands. That is to say,
If your cat has had ringworm, even if it's better now, there may still be fungal spores in the environment. You need to thoroughly disinfect before you are ready to raise a new cat.
Secondly, if you go to find wild cats or other cats that may have ringworm, and then go home without washing your hands, you will get your cat who has recently been weak in resistance, then I'm sorry, your cat is very likely to get ringworm.
3. Treatment of Ringworm
This topic is really bitter tears!
(1) Early detection and diagnosis in the hospital
If you find that your cat starts to scratch its corners frequently, and some parts start to fall off. The skin underneath the fallen part is gray or brown, which may mean it has ringworm...
It is recommended to go to the hospital for confirmation and do a "skin scraping fungal test" to determine the infected bacteria. Then the doctor will decide whether to use external or internal application based on the number of affected areas on the cat. In more serious cases, the doctor will recommend a medicated bath and oral medication.
If there are few lesions on the body, it is recommended to take external medication and do not take those antifungal oral medications. However, you can give your cat vitamin B (the same one that humans eat. It costs 2 or 3 yuan per bottle, and the dosage is calculated according to the cat's weight. If the cat is not very young, you can take one tablet once or twice a day. Daily health care is one tablet once a day).
If there are many lesions, the doctor will recommend external medication plus oral antifungal medication. Pay special attention here. Internal medicine must be taken according to the doctor's instructions, because antifungal drugs are all drugs that are very burdensome to the cat's liver.
If there are many lesions, doctors usually recommend medicated baths and oral medications, which are very painful because most cats are afraid of water, but medicated baths require the cat to soak for 5-10 minutes or more... You can imagine this process, the cat's struggle.
(2) Appearance of the shovel officer Lao Wang
When I bought my glutinous rice, I found 4-5 ringworm patches, which were not big but all over the place. Then I took it to the hospital for diagnosis and extermination. At that time, the doctor checked and prescribed the external medicine: Pishu Ke.
Because there was a native resident at home, glutinous rice was taken directly to the dormitory by Lao Wang, and he had almost never met the native resident Zongzi at home. Then started the painful daily spray time.
Cats are afraid of water, but the external medicine is in the form of a spray bottle, and then there are all kinds of struggles. It's called tragedy... I spray three times a day, and after each spray, I put the Elizabethan collar on. I take it off every time I eat, and I look pitiful every day. And because I was afraid of being infected, I bought glutinous rice and ate a piece of B myself for a long time, and then I started to feed glutinous rice to eat B.
Because it was the first time to treat ringworm, the medication was very strict. Basically, I finished a bottle in less than a week, but the effect was really bad in the first week, and it even seemed to be getting worse. Lesions formed all kinds of scabs, and I couldn't wait to find new lesions every day. (Thinking about it now, I really don't understand myself. That was already a sign of recovery...)
So from the second week, I stopped using the medicine prescribed by the doctor at the hospital, but instead used an online folk remedy: "Dilute with Jielinyin" and then spray it on the affected area. I was wrong, I was really wrong. My glutinous rice is short and white, and it was almost dyed orange at that time... and for my glutinous rice, the effect is not obvious.
So after using Jielinyin for two weeks, I went to the pet hospital to refill the medicine, and I added a medicated bath every week. That time was really painful... Glutinous rice was pitiful every day, and it was wet three times a day.
In short, after two months and nearly three months, glutinous rice was completely recovered. In this way, B continued to eat for another month.
So for ringworm, I really feel that "ringworm is not a disease, it's my life that I'm going to die to cure it..."
4. Prevention of ringworm
So you shovel officers must be prepared, focus on prevention, don't wait until you get sick to treat it, it's too painful.
1. Adequate nutrition. In fact, cats can self-heal ringworm, but the prerequisite is to be healthy and have perfect resistance. So cats should have a balanced diet.
2. Keep the living environment clean and dry. Cats are prone to ringworm in a humid environment.
3. Cats have a place to sunbathe regularly. After all, sunshine is the best disinfectant.
4. You can supplement your cat with vitamin B regularly, because this vitamin can also prevent cat's stomatitis, which is a very painful disease...
5. Do daily disinfection of the living environment. Here I recommend using "chlorine dioxide" for disinfection, because there is no residue, no need for secondary cleaning, and it is cheap...
Has your cat owner ever had ringworm? How did you get better? Welcome to discuss in the comments below!
Many families who have raised cats for the first time suddenly find that their cats start to lose hair in some parts when they buy them back. At this time, if you ask the cat seller, they will say: "Ah, it's milk ringworm. It's natural to eat a few good meals." If you search online, you will see many netizens saying "This is ringworm, which is a common disease of humans and pets. You need to treat it quickly, and then give many treatment plans." On the contrary, you are picked out. If you go to the pet hospital, the doctor will first do a "skin scraping test" and then take out a "Wood's lamp" and shine it repeatedly. Finally, he will tell you a lot of professional terms, and then prescribe a bunch of medicines. (You can buy a Wood's lamp on Taobao, and you can do a pre-examination yourself in the future).
So what exactly is ringworm? How to treat it? Lao Wang, I want to present my story with my three months of struggle.
1. Ringworm is not a disease, I almost died to cure it!
Ringworm is a fungal skin disease in cats. Almost all cat fur can be infected. Symptoms are often prototypical or oval ringworm patches, with gray scales, often accompanied by hair loss at the affected area, affecting the cat's appearance.
But cats themselves have no significant mental impact on ringworm. At most, they will scratch the affected area frequently. However, you can't tell that it's sick when it's eating and drinking. It's actually a bit like athlete's foot in humans. Except for itching, other effects are not significant...
2. Causes of ringworm
Ringworm is mostly caused by Microsporum canis and Trichophyton mentagrophytes, most of which are Microsporum canis. This fungus is mostly transmitted through the environment and human hands. That is to say,
If your cat has had ringworm, even if it's better now, there may still be fungal spores in the environment. You need to thoroughly disinfect before you are ready to raise a new cat.
Secondly, if you go to find wild cats or other cats that may have ringworm, and then go home without washing your hands, you will get your cat who has recently been weak in resistance, then I'm sorry, your cat is very likely to get ringworm.
3. Treatment of Ringworm
This topic is really bitter tears!
(1) Early detection and diagnosis in the hospital
If you find that your cat starts to scratch its corners frequently, and some parts start to fall off. The skin underneath the fallen part is gray or brown, which may mean it has ringworm...
It is recommended to go to the hospital for confirmation and do a "skin scraping fungal test" to determine the infected bacteria. Then the doctor will decide whether to use external or internal application based on the number of affected areas on the cat. In more serious cases, the doctor will recommend a medicated bath and oral medication.
If there are few lesions on the body, it is recommended to take external medication and do not take those antifungal oral medications. However, you can give your cat vitamin B (the same one that humans eat. It costs 2 or 3 yuan per bottle, and the dosage is calculated according to the cat's weight. If the cat is not very young, you can take one tablet once or twice a day. Daily health care is one tablet once a day).
If there are many lesions, the doctor will recommend external medication plus oral antifungal medication. Pay special attention here. Internal medicine must be taken according to the doctor's instructions, because antifungal drugs are all drugs that are very burdensome to the cat's liver.
If there are many lesions, doctors usually recommend medicated baths and oral medications, which are very painful because most cats are afraid of water, but medicated baths require the cat to soak for 5-10 minutes or more... You can imagine this process, the cat's struggle.
(2) Appearance of the shovel officer Lao Wang
When I bought my glutinous rice, I found 4-5 ringworm patches, which were not big but all over the place. Then I took it to the hospital for diagnosis and extermination. At that time, the doctor checked and prescribed the external medicine: Pishu Ke.
Because there was a native resident at home, glutinous rice was taken directly to the dormitory by Lao Wang, and he had almost never met the native resident Zongzi at home. Then started the painful daily spray time.
Cats are afraid of water, but the external medicine is in the form of a spray bottle, and then there are all kinds of struggles. It's called tragedy... I spray three times a day, and after each spray, I put the Elizabethan collar on. I take it off every time I eat, and I look pitiful every day. And because I was afraid of being infected, I bought glutinous rice and ate a piece of B myself for a long time, and then I started to feed glutinous rice to eat B.
Because it was the first time to treat ringworm, the medication was very strict. Basically, I finished a bottle in less than a week, but the effect was really bad in the first week, and it even seemed to be getting worse. Lesions formed all kinds of scabs, and I couldn't wait to find new lesions every day. (Thinking about it now, I really don't understand myself. That was already a sign of recovery...)
So from the second week, I stopped using the medicine prescribed by the doctor at the hospital, but instead used an online folk remedy: "Dilute with Jielinyin" and then spray it on the affected area. I was wrong, I was really wrong. My glutinous rice is short and white, and it was almost dyed orange at that time... and for my glutinous rice, the effect is not obvious.
So after using Jielinyin for two weeks, I went to the pet hospital to refill the medicine, and I added a medicated bath every week. That time was really painful... Glutinous rice was pitiful every day, and it was wet three times a day.
In short, after two months and nearly three months, glutinous rice was completely recovered. In this way, B continued to eat for another month.
So for ringworm, I really feel that "ringworm is not a disease, it's my life that I'm going to die to cure it..."
4. Prevention of ringworm
So you shovel officers must be prepared, focus on prevention, don't wait until you get sick to treat it, it's too painful.
1. Adequate nutrition. In fact, cats can self-heal ringworm, but the prerequisite is to be healthy and have perfect resistance. So cats should have a balanced diet.
2. Keep the living environment clean and dry. Cats are prone to ringworm in a humid environment.
3. Cats have a place to sunbathe regularly. After all, sunshine is the best disinfectant.
4. You can supplement your cat with vitamin B regularly, because this vitamin can also prevent cat's stomatitis, which is a very painful disease...
5. Do daily disinfection of the living environment. Here I recommend using "chlorine dioxide" for disinfection, because there is no residue, no need for secondary cleaning, and it is cheap...
Has your cat owner ever had ringworm? How did you get better? Welcome to discuss in the comments below!
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