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Cat Forum / General Topics / December 2004Ringworm times three
I hauled Avery and Dandy to the vet today - Fleagor was supposed to go too, but he couldn't be found ... fortunately I had some scrapings from him (I have no idea why I kept them) - all three have ringworm, and a couple more may be coming down with it. It's not extensive on any of them, but I'm looking at four weeks of pilling three cats. Unfortunately, Dandy can't be handled. I managed to catch him this morning and put him in the isolation cage where I could give him the last tranquilizer pill crushed up in some tuna. It had little effect but did make it possible to move him to a carrier. He'll have to spend the next four weeks in the cage because If I let him out, there is no chance of getting close enough to him to give him doctored tuna without some other cat getting to it first. At least it's a fairly big cage: four feet long, two feet deep, and too feet high. And it has a sleeping shelf at the end opposite the litter pan, and above the food and water.  SignatureT.E.D. (tdavis@gearbox.maem.umr.edu) > I hauled Avery and Dandy to the vet today - Fleagor was supposed to go > too, but he couldn't be found ... fortunately I had some scrapings [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > has a sleeping shelf at the end opposite the litter pan, and above the > food and water. Are you also bathing them? We were told, and we found it to be true, that bathing with an anti-fungal shampoo accelerated recovery and improved skin condition immediately. We had 2 adults who never caught the ringworm, but the 2 new kittens had numerous lesions. SignatureWayne in Phoenix *If there's a nit to pick, some nitwit will pick it. *A mind is a terrible thing to lose. >> I hauled Avery and Dandy to the vet today - Fleagor was supposed to go >> too, but he couldn't be found ... fortunately I had some scrapings [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] >condition immediately. We had 2 adults who never caught the ringworm, but >the 2 new kittens had numerous lesions. No way: I don't own a suit of plate armor. I could probably spot bathe Fleagor and Avery, but Dandy cannot be handled. SignatureT.E.D. (tdavis@gearbox.maem.umr.edu) > I hauled Avery and Dandy to the vet today - Fleagor was supposed to go > too, but he couldn't be found ... fortunately I had some scrapings [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > has a sleeping shelf at the end opposite the litter pan, and above the > food and water. Off-the-wall suggestion, but if your vet gives the OK, why not just doctor all their food with ringworm medication? pat >> I hauled Avery and Dandy to the vet today - Fleagor was supposed to go >> too, but he couldn't be found ... fortunately I had some scrapings >> from him (I have no idea why I kept them) - all three have ringworm, >> and a couple more may be coming down with it. It's not extensive on >> any of them, but I'm looking at four weeks of pilling three cats. Ted, what med did they give you to treat ringworm? I recall Frank having ringworm years ago and he got a 3-week regime of Fulvicin. I've since heard that it's very damaging to the liver and they don't use it anymore. I wonder what they're using now. Sherry >>> I hauled Avery and Dandy to the vet today - Fleagor was supposed to go >>> too, but he couldn't be found ... fortunately I had some scrapings [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >that it's very damaging to the liver and they don't use it anymore. I wonder >what they're using now. The printer used to make the label needs work: the label is fuzzy. Best I can make out, it's Keloconazole, 50 mg per cat once a day. There isn't much at Google with that spelling, so the spelling is suspect. SignatureT.E.D. (tdavis@gearbox.maem.umr.edu) >The printer used to make the label needs work: the label is fuzzy. >Best I can make out, it's Keloconazole, 50 mg per cat once a day. Most likely it is itraconazole. I had complete success with itraconazole. My vet gave it at a dosage of 10mg/kg once a day mixed up in fish oil by a compounding pharmacy. My kittens thought it was a great treat and considering the price you want it all to go down:). I gave it until I saw hair growing back, no new spots, no fluorescence under a black light, then cut it down to every other day until they were completely cured. Took about a month. I also bathed several times per week with Malaseb shampoo or sulfur shampoo. http://www.pandecats.com/x/ringworm_battle_plan.htm http://www.pandecats.com/x/limesulphur_shampoo.htm BarB >> I hauled Avery and Dandy to the vet today - Fleagor was supposed to go >> too, but he couldn't be found ... fortunately I had some scrapings [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] >Off-the-wall suggestion, but if your vet gives the OK, why not just >doctor all their food with ringworm medication? Not advisable - most of the cats don't have it, and because of the risk of liver damage, those should not be given the medicine. Not even the two that may or may not have it. It would also be prohibitively expensive: there are twelve cats, plus an unknown number of visitors of unknown species. SignatureT.E.D. (tdavis@gearbox.maem.umr.edu) > Off-the-wall suggestion, but if your vet gives the OK, why not just > doctor all their food with ringworm medication? or make up a little dish with a biteful of something tasty, one for each cat and spike the meds into the appropriate ones; serve at the same time. Mind you when the medicines are no longer necessary you're still going to have a bunch of cats giving you "the look", expectant of a treat. pat >> Off-the-wall suggestion, but if your vet gives the OK, why not just >> doctor all their food with ringworm medication? > >or make up a little dish with a biteful of something tasty, one for each >cat and spike the meds into the appropriate ones; serve at the same time. That's what I'm doing: human grade tuna. Unfortunately, there is something wrong with Avery: he doesn't much like tuna - I'll have to find something else for him. He likes raw mouse. >Mind you when the medicines are no longer necessary you're still going >to have a bunch of cats giving you "the look", expectant of a treat. They do that anyway. They are used to having a bowl of half-and-half (milk/cream) provided each evening. I'd like to turn Dandy loose, but he won't touch the spiked tuna until I leave - if he'll eat it in my presence, I could let him out of the cage (he *really* doesn't like being caged, though he does like the sleeping shelf - it's about ten inches by eighteen inches and has a rim all round to keep him (and the towel pad) from slipping off, and it's about eight or ten inches down from the covered top of the cage). SignatureT.E.D. (tdavis@gearbox.maem.umr.edu)
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