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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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Marie Lawrence wrote: 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 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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On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 11:05:28 +1000, "Marie Lawrence"
wrote: 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. 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. -- T.E.D. ) |
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