How to treat ringworm in cats
From heighten vet clinic today,I'm actually talking about something which we see I guess randomly ,commonly and that would be ringworm ringworm, is a highly contagious disease which is often spread with cats it is what we call a zoonotic, disease which basically means it's can ,spread from animal to human or vice versa human to animal this is marlo he's only a young
Little kitten
He's just presented us today with the, owner actually for routine vaccinations actually got a little spot which I'm not sure he can appreciate, on his little leg and basically I guess the,owner wasn't too alarmed we've, basically done some little checking for, him and unfortunately it's suggestive of ringworm couple different, ways of X may get a bit of a tentative
diagnosis or a diagnosis one would be, there's a test court Awards that test which, ultraviolet light actually flores's on the, area and what can happen is the skin goes a certain, color which is suggesting a ringworm if we were, also suspicious but they didn't test positive on that there is a little hair plaque we can, do we actually then grow the fungal spores which, then again is
You know suggestive of a diagnosis of ringworm
ringworm itself, is a fungal spore it's actually not spread as in testa worms, because some people get a bit confused be its fungal,
spores the risk is it because of spores are spread everywhere, the risk for you at home is that fungal, spores spread and obviously, there the disease is spread, humans often get a little circulations on themselves as well, if you're at all concerned in particular guess if you have a rescue cat is it's not uncommon unfortunately in shelters, and so forth but getting a cat
checked early also dogs that does occur in dogs but if we, get them checked on what's in start on treatment, there are some topical creams which work okay for, really mild cases other times there's some stronger medication which we may have to give, some oral medication or suspensions also, and I guess that turns treating the cat there are some washers that antifungal washers, which are useful a lot of cats don't like being, washed but a lot of dogs will tolerate that there's also some products called f10 which is a veterinary, disinfectant for
the home environment, situations so we don't spread the spores are out at home and in addition to that there's also, a washboard canna stand wash which you, can get from the supermarket to actually treat the home environments and their bedding and, everything because it is contagious where, the cats are going little fungal spores, are going off and obviously then getting your bedding, and stuff like that and hence the f10 is quite useful, with the canister wash and I guess, um the cat I think they often do recover, but it can be a bit of a protracted process because the risk of reinfection or one thicket, sick the other pet get sicken and the owners get spots as well so unfortunate for them Allah he will be undergoing, quite
A few weeks of treatment
before he's probably back to square one but otherwise, I guess in his sort of thing a dedicated owner you can, get on top of them and avoid them I guess running around the house to avoid the, spray but what I will do is I will actually, turn the lights off and you should, be able to see this Larry glow all being, well you might not be the best with, this light unfortunately but yeah, you'll tend to find we tend to see, them glow a little bit as well you, can probably see a little it's not as good in this light unfortunately but from our side of things, what you tend to find is once we get the, right treatment and if they've got round, circulations and it stops a spread, we'll get a good result