In addition to joy, your pet can bring into the house not the most pleasant disease - lichen. What you need to do to keep your cat and yourself healthy.
It is necessary
Antifungal drugs for animals
Instructions
Step 1
Ringworm in cats is a highly contagious disease caused by a fungus. Symptoms of lichen usually include hair lesions, bald patches, and scales on the skin. The head, ears and paws are most severely affected, and in severe, advanced cases, the entire body.
If you suspect a cat has lichen, take it to your veterinarian right away. He will take a scraping from the skin and illuminate the cat under an ultraviolet lamp - fluorescence will be observed with lichen.
Step 2
If a cat has been diagnosed with lichen, then immediately you need to start treating the cat. You can treat a cat with preparations with griseofulvin (sold in a veterinary pharmacy). The composition penetrates into the bloodstream, and then into the hairs of the cat and kills the fungus that has infected it. Also, the cat should be washed with an antifungal shampoo. If the cat is long-haired, it can be trimmed so that the infection does not spread to healthy hair and the medicine gets to the tip of the hair faster.
Step 3
Since shingles are transmitted to humans, handle your cat carefully during illness. Perform all procedures with gloves. Isolate your cat from children and other animals. Burn all the things the cat used to sleep on - bedding, blanket, etc. Give her a new special place. Do a wet cleaning in the apartment with disinfectants ("domestos", for example). While you are in quarantine, do not invite friends who have animals to the house and do not go to visit yourself. It is easy to transfer fungal pathogens to shoes or clothing.
Step 4
The lichen treatment lasts 4 to 6 weeks. After that, the cat needs to be shown to the veterinarian again. If new tests reveal that the fungus has not yet been completely cured, you will have to undergo a second course of treatment.
