Let you learn about the diagnosis and treatment of ringworm disease in pets!

Let you learn about the diagnosis and treatment of ringworm disease in pets! Ringworm is commonly known as ringworm or ringworm. It is a common skin disease in cats caused by cat infection by microsporidium canis. It is a zoonotic disease. Preventing and treating this disease has certain significance for public health and safety. This disease generally presents chronic symptoms in cats. Although ringworm itself does not cause cat death, cats will cause serious bacterial infections due to the decrease in skin resistance, which will lead to a series of complications such as sepsis and bacteremia. In severe cases, it will cause animal death. I have certain treatment experience in treating ringworm and have achieved relatively satisfactory results. I will share my diagnosis and treatment situation with netizens.

1. The transmission route of ringworm is contact infection, that is, the disease can be transmitted to healthy cats, dogs, humans, etc. through anything that the disease is exposed to by a sick cat. Because the cat itself has a large range of movement, the spread of the disease is very difficult to control, especially after wild cats get sick.

Learn to learn about pet cats. You will want to keep one. 2. Main clinical symptoms. Usually, cats with ringworm have no particularly obvious symptoms at the beginning. After getting sick for a period of time, the body with a long course of illness is thin, the hair is dim and partially or largely falls off. Ringworm is more common in the trunk, and a few cases are also seen in the head, limbs, ears and tail. The affected area is itchy, and the severity varies. Some cats suffer from bacterial infection due to scratching. The typical symptom is hair loss in the affected area, with annular scaly and dry and round rashes; some of the affected areas still have some hair roots, some of the affected areas are completely hair loss, and some of the affected areas develop hair between the ringworm spots. Some cat owners are sent to the hospital earlier and need to caress carefully with their hands to find out that small protrusions can be felt when touched by their hands, and small pieces of scab and dander are found under the hair.

3. Diagnosis methods for cat ringworm

1. In a dim environment, when using Wood's lamp to shine on the affected part of the cat's skin, yellow-green fluorescent hair roots can be found. Pay attention to the difference from the green fluorescent appearance of some ointments.

2. Scrape the hair or dandruff on the edge of the affected skin onto the slide, add a few drops of 10% potassium hydroxide solution, heat it slightly with an alcohol lamp, cover the coverslip, and observe under a microscope to see fungal spores.

4. The treatment of cat ringworm

uses combined treatment of topical medication and oral antibacterial drugs. It is not easy to cure by using topical medications alone, and it is necessary to take oral antibacterial drugs to treat it.

1. Zhentaishu Spray: A drug for fungal dermatosis in dogs and cats, which has good results in both treatment and prevention.

2. Clotrimazole ointment: This medicine is non-irritating and has good efficacy. It usually takes about two weeks to treat it before it can be cured.

3. Ketoconazole ointment: a broad-spectrum antifungal drug. It can be used by both humans and animals to treat ringworm diseases. It will be used for 2 to 8 weeks in a row.

5. Others

1. If conditions permit, sunshine can be performed for a period of time every day, but attention should be paid to preventing heatstroke and sunburn.

2. Dissolve sulfur soap in water and bathe the cat. Soak it for about fifteen minutes each time. Be careful to contact as much water as possible. After washing, try to dry the hair, twice a week.

3. Because ringworm can be transmitted to people, disinfection should be paid attention to. Try to choose a disinfectant with a lighter odor, and use a special disinfectant for pets or other disinfectant, but pay attention to dilution and ratio. Because ringworm is transmitted through spores, environmental disinfection is important. At the same time, the living environment of the affected cat should be kept dry and ventilated. The fibers, wool fabrics, clothing, etc. that the affected cat has been exposed to should be boiled and disinfected after exposure to the sun. The utensils used by the affected cat should be sprayed with the diluted disinfectant as required every day. The furniture and floors within the range of movement should be wiped with the diluted disinfectant during 2 days to effectively prevent the spread of ringworm.

4. Take animal supplements for cats and use them for half a year to enhance physical fitness.

5. The affected cat should be kept in isolation and raised, with limited scope of movement, especially at night activities.

6. Experience and experience

1. Ringworm can occur all year round, but the incidence rate is high in hot and humid summers. Cats with humid living environment, malnutrition and frail diseases are more likely to be infected and have a longer recovery time. Increasing nutrition, especially B vitamins, is conducive to preventing the occurrence of the disease and the recovery of the affected cats.

2. Ringworm cats need laboratory diagnosis. If you use the naked eye, people with insufficient experience are likely to misdiagnose mite disease.

3. If the cat scratches more severely, be careful to wear an Elizabethan circle, because the affected cat may cause secondary bacterial infection when itchy, resulting in severe exudative inflammation. It can be seen that the affected area of ​​the skin is red, swollen and eroded, and in severe cases it may become suppurative. Therefore, attention should be paid to the treatment and care of inflammation.

4. The treatment time for cat ringworm is long. Medical staff and cat owners need to be patient. As long as they insist on treatment and care properly, they can generally be cured. Since the cured cat has a certain degree of immunity (mainly cellular immunity) within a certain period of time, the author has not seen any recurrence after complete cure.

5. The development of ringworm in cats generally spreads from the center of the affected area to the surroundings in an annular shape. Improper treatment and care will prolong the treatment time and even recur, including incorrect medication or dose, incorrect local treatment, not shaved hair, intermittent treatment, failure to administer the medication at the prescribed time, not treating all animals in the same house or frequently in contact with them, inattention to the environment and disinfection of the equipment, etc.

6. Veterinarians and pet owners should carefully and timely clean and disinfect the parts and clothing that have been exposed to the affected cat to prevent the spread of fungi. In addition, appropriate oral multivitamins should be taken to enhance physical fitness to prevent infection.