RE: OT: Help ! ringworm in kittens

[catatonya]

Hideyo,

 

Ringworm is a nightmare.  You need to quarantine those kittens right away.  Preferably in a basement or somewhere totally away from the others.  Meanwhile... the spores spread through the air.  If possible I would put them in cages and put sheets over the cages to try to keep it from spreading.

 

You need to bleach everything.  You need to wash yourself when you tend to these guys before tending to your other cats.  I had a friend with it that put the ringworm cats in the basement and she would actually undress in the basement, and go straight to the shower and get dressed in clean clothes everytime she went down there.  It took her months to get everyone cleared up.

 

Do a google search on ringworm.  My vet always said to wash the places with a very diluted bleach solution.  Their cages need to be cleaned regularly too, and food dishes, and litters, etc.... It all needs to be bleached. 

 

That's the short version.  :(  

 

Good luck with this.  Ringworm is such a pain.  No, it's not deadly, and we don't like to euthanize cats for it at the shelter, but it's sooooooooo contagious that it's hard to deal with.

 

Immunity (or lack of it) does have something to do with who will or will not catch it.

 

tonya

Hideyo Yamamoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I guess now I have a big disaster in my house.. because I have so many other cats and kittens are everywhere –

I was also told and read that though it’s contagious, cats with regular immunity will not develop symptoms--- is it true? Or not really?

 

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Subject: Re: OT: Help ! ringworm in kittens

 

No ringworm wont make them any sicker its just a pain to get rid of and it could take a couple of months for the hair to grow back