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Marie Lawrence - 04 Sep 2005 02:05 GMT

A friend of mine, who was a breeder of Siamese cats, found ringworm on one
of her cats. She had about 15 cats at the time, all of them were on
griseofulvin tablets for 4 weeks and all had to be bathed ( totally
immersed) except for heads which were bathed, daily, then every second day
for weeks. This was very time consuming and difficult, but she persisted
and it all cleared up without any of the cats getting infected. It was
winter and she had to put them in a kitten pen with a heat lamp to dry off.
It was a nightmare, the sort of thing breeders, and cat owners dread.
Marie from OZ

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sriddles@aol.com - 04 Sep 2005 06:28 GMT

> A friend of mine, who was a breeder of Siamese cats, found ringworm on one
> of her cats. She had about 15 cats at the time, all of them were on
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> It was a nightmare, the sort of thing breeders, and cat owners dread.
> Marie from OZ

It's a nightmare for shelters, too. Glad your friend was able to
resolve it without the other cats getting infected.
When Frank had ringworm, they gave him Fulvicin, which I *think* is the
same thing as Griseofulvin. For some reason, the vets don't prescribe
it here anymore. I think it turns out it was very hard on their liver.

Sherry

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Howard C. Berkowitz - 12 Sep 2005 16:22 GMT

> > A friend of mine, who was a breeder of Siamese cats, found ringworm
> > on one
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>
> Sherry

Griseofulvin also requires a much longer period of treatment than the
more modern drugs such as itraconazole or ketoconazole. The latter are
definitely not cheap, but may be economic -- to say nothing of less
traumatic -- compared with a griseofulvin course of many months.

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Ted Davis - 04 Sep 2005 17:44 GMT

>A friend of mine, who was a breeder of Siamese cats, found ringworm on one
>of her cats. She had about 15 cats at the time, all of them were on
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
>winter and she had to put them in a kitten pen with a heat lamp to dry off.
>It was a nightmare, the sort of thing breeders, and cat owners dread.

On the other hand, there are vets who recommend using human type OTC
ringworm creams - one brand is a once a day for a week remedy that
stopped my epidemic (five of the twelve cats had at least small
lesions, two had it bad) in its tracks (it took a couple of weeks to
finish treating the ones that caught it later). It was easy enough to
treat the cats during their daily petting sessions. Ringworm doesn't
have to be the horror it's so often made out to be, and as it used to
be for me until I was turned on to this approach.

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