Cat tinea is the most common skin disease in cats, which often makes novice owners worry for a while. Even a lot of abandonment occurs because the shovel officer has no patience to treat cats with cat moss. In fact, tinea felis is not terrible, as long as you are educated.
here, I hope that if your cat has tinea, please don't be afraid, don't waver, don't give up, think about your happy time, love TA, please be responsible for TA. Although TA is a pet to you, you are everything to TA.
Please don't give up your cat ~
What is tinea felis?
Cat ringworm refers to the skin disease of cats, which frequently occurs on the face, trunk, limbs and tail, with round or oval ringworm spots, which are covered with gray scales, and the hair color will become rough, and the ringworm spots will be broken off or fall off.
cats infected with tinea felis have huge itching, so they often scratch on various objects. The course of disease is long, and bald spots are formed after scales fall off.
if you find the above symptoms on your cat, please seek medical advice in time.
how did cats get cat moss?
dermatophytes that cause tinea felis can spread spores, which are very difficult to kill and can survive in the environment for many years. The contact of a spore with damaged skin can infect cats with tinea felis, so the chances of infection of cats who have just shaved or scratched their bodies are much higher. Healthy and intact skin is usually not infected even if it comes into contact with spores.
cats infected with tinea felis will continuously shed their hair and spread spores into the environment. Although some cats have no symptoms of skin diseases, they may still be carriers of fungi. For example, cats in the late stage of treatment for tinea felis may still carry some fungi, although their symptoms have all recovered. In addition, healthy cats may occasionally carry fungi, such as after short-term contact with cats suffering from tinea felis or just cured from tinea felis, but in this case, spores can be easily washed away.
does tinea felis infect people?
yes, tinea felis can be transmitted to humans. However, not everyone who comes into contact with tinea felis will get sick. In fact, only a very small number of people with low immunity are susceptible to infection.
In general, if you have been in contact with animals that have been diagnosed with tinea felis, but you are not infected, chances are that you will not be infected again. Remember, infection needs damaged skin as a medium, so it is very important to wear gloves when contacting animals with tinea felis to prevent contact infection.
If you have symptoms of suspected cat moss, don't be nervous or afraid. If you are timid, please see a human dermatologist in time. If you are not nervous, you can go to the drugstore to buy some drugs, such as Huanli, Dyclonine and Erythromycin Ointment. (Here, only personal experience is shared, and everyone has different constitutions and different feelings about drugs, please consult a doctor.)
How was tinea felis diagnosed?
The symptoms of tinea felis in pets are far less typical than those in humans, so in many cases, the diagnosis can't be made only by skin symptoms. In some cases, animals don't even have itching symptoms. Therefore, veterinarians need some other means to help diagnose and treat the symptoms. These methods include: Wood's lamp (the most common fungus of adult tinea felis) has a 5% chance of producing fluorescent green under the lamp. ) microscopic examination, fungal culture, biopsy, etc.
does a cat with tinea felis need to be shaved all over?
For cats with tinea felis in several local areas, it is only necessary to shave the affected area. If the cat is serious enough to be covered with tinea felis, even long-haired cats can consider shaving the whole body.
how is tinea felis treated?
The most important treatment is that you should be patient, confident and persistent.
To treat tinea felis, drugs should be used. The purpose of drugs is to inhibit the reproduction of fungi and kill them.
First, cut off the hair of the affected part of the cat (this will not only allow drugs to penetrate directly into the skin, but also avoid the spread of fungi).
If the limbs and ears are not serious in 1-3 places, they are generally treated with external spraying drugs. The common spraying drugs include Shenxianshui (Vidachan/MacGaochen), Companion Skin Beauty, Pitefen (which is highly irritating and not recommended), Xuanlijing, Livshaxi, Duojunkang, 886 spray, etc. (Special note: the drugs here are only used. The drugs recommended by pet hospitals in different regions are also different, but the main principle is the same. You should first diagnose the disease before choosing drugs, and spray it 4 times a day, and stick to it. Pay attention to bringing elizabeth circle to cats when spraying drugs. It is more comfortable to recommend soft circles. For the master who doesn't like wearing a ring very much, it is recommended to wear a ring when spraying, and then take off the ring after half an hour of drug absorption. If the cat doesn't lick it. You don't have to wear a ring.
When spraying medicine, pay attention to clean up the dead skin and hair on the affected area. If it doesn't get better after 2 weeks, or even there are more and more tinea felis, the main line of treatment will be changed to medicated bath+ointment on the affected area. In serious cases, internal medicine is needed. Common medicated baths include spicy bath and Vic medicated bath, etc. Families with many cats suggest buying one bottle and washing it many times. After the medicated bath, you should take a bath according to the time, dry your hair after washing, and continue to spray medicine four times a day ~
Generally, as long as you don't have a tendency to get sick all over your body, you don't need to take a medicated bath. If you go to a pet shop for a medicated bath, pay attention to the cat's personality, and don't have any stress reaction, especially the owner who is particularly resistant to taking a bath.
The shovel officer who can't see a doctor immediately can clean up the affected area first. I have seen that the principle of Fuyanjie used by cat friends should also be for anti-inflammatory and sterilization (this is a folk prescription for posting, for reference only, so don't try it rashly).
If you stop the treatment just because the pet "looks" better during the treatment, it will often lead to the recurrence of the disease.
environmental disinfection
the biggest challenge of environmental disinfection is that few cleaning products are very effective for fungi and spores. 1:1 diluted chlorine-containing disinfection products can disinfect the contaminated surface, and if used correctly, it can kill about 8% of fungal spores at a time. In general, it is recommended to clean the surface with ordinary cleaning products for three times, and then wet the surface with chlorine-containing disinfection products for 1 minutes to ensure the elimination of spores.
If dust or hair still exists in the environment, disinfection products can't kill spores well, so the preliminary cleaning work is also very important. Comprehensive carpet vacuuming can also help cleaning, but it is also very important to vacuumize the polluted place for 5-1 minutes with high power and properly handle the vacuum bag.
Enhance the cat's resistance
Enhance the cat's nutrition, make the cat have enough resistance, and supplement more B vitamins, niacin, minerals, taurine, unsaturated fatty acids, etc.
sunbathing, doing more exercise
sunbathing, paying attention to exercise and strengthening indoor sanitation and ventilation are all ways to promote sterilization and enhance resistance. Give cats more opportunities to exercise, plenty of entertainment games and running opportunities, and clean the house without leaving any dead ends, especially the fabric, which is a powerful thing to spread germs. To clean hair and dust, use a vacuum cleaner instead of a broom, so as to clean their scattered hair with germs. I specially bought a vacuum cleaner for this purpose.
what should I do if I always "relapse/get over it"?
After several months of medication and medicated bath, cats should normally recover completely. If there is no effective improvement after more than 1 days of treatment, it is necessary to re-examine the treatment plan: < P > If the pet is not fully shaved, then shaving should be considered at this time;
If you always use "looking better" as the standard for stopping taking medicine, it is very likely that the cat has not fully recovered, and negative fungal culture is the reliable standard for deciding whether to stop taking medicine.
It's very important to take a bath with the mixture of stone and sulfur twice a week. If the owner can't hold on, he can send his pet to the hospital. Being lazy will make the fungus take advantage of it.
It is very important to isolate cats infected with tinea felis. If you don't isolate them, you can't disinfect the environment effectively and thoroughly, so it is very easy to get infected again, and the previous efforts will be wasted.
It is necessary to consider whether the cat's immune system is imperfect. If the cat suffers from other diseases at the same time, it is also very important to control other diseases for the treatment of tinea felis.
Considering the effectiveness of drugs, if one drug has no effect on cats, you can consider using another one;
In addition, it is necessary to consider whether the cat is suffering from tinea felis. If the diagnosis is made by methods such as fungus culture and Wood's lamp before treatment, if it is judged only by naked eyes, it is likely to be misjudged, and the remedy for the disease is not effective.
Precautions
1. Try not to give oral fungicidal drugs such as griseofulvin to cats unless absolutely necessary. Such drugs will cause liver dysfunction in cats and leave the root cause. If you want to take it, you should pay attention to feeding it for one day and stop it for one day, and the taking time should not exceed two weeks.
2. Don't use Dyclonine, which is not only ineffective, but also may spread the ringworm.
3. Relieve at home and disinfect cat products in time to prevent re-infection. Especially the nest, mat, floor and furniture where cats often sleep are often disinfected.
4. Because tinea felis can be transmitted to people, please pay attention to disinfection. Cat owners should take oral multivitamins to prevent it.
5. Cats must strengthen nutrition and get more sunshine during medication. During this period, we should strengthen the nutrition of cat food and give cats vitamins for animals.
6. Be sure to find out the new ringworm on the cat in time. There are new hard pimples or bumps on the cat's skin, and there is a little dander next to it, which is the new cat tinea. Don't forget to take medicine for these parts.
7. Humid, high-temperature, unventilated environment is easy to breed fungi, so the environment of cats should be dry and ventilated.
supplementary notes on tinea felis
griseofulvin should be used with caution, especially for kittens under one year old, because all oral fungicides are very harmful to the liver.
The recovery of cats suffering from tinea felis is closely related to their own physique. Cats with good physical conditions have a short recovery period, while cats with poor physical conditions have a long recovery time, and it may be very long (more than 2 months or longer). But in any case, the treatment should be patient. Don't abandon a cat just because it has tinea, a large area of hair loss and ugliness. Tinea is definitely not a fatal disease, and fundamentally it has little impact on the health of cats, so be patient.
After cats suffer from tinea, it is very important to supplement nutrition and get more sunshine in addition to topical drugs such as clotrimazole.
The development of tinea felis generally spreads in a ring shape from the center of the affected part to the periphery. Improper treatment and nursing will prolong the treatment time and even recur. This situation includes wrong medication or dosage, incorrect local treatment, failure to shave hair, intermittent treatment, failure to give medicine at the prescribed time, failure to treat all animals in the same room or in frequent contact, and failure to pay attention to the cleaning and disinfection of environment and instruments.
Veterinarians and pet owners should carefully clean and disinfect the parts and clothes that have come into contact with infected cats in time to prevent the spread of fungi. In addition, oral multivitamins should be taken properly to enhance physical fitness to prevent infection.