Fungal skin diseases in cats

Precautions for diagnosis and treatment of fungal diseases in cats, a must-read for novices! Cat skin diseases often trouble us, and there are many causes of cat skin diseases. For example, fungal, bacterial, parasitic infections or allergies, etc. Fungal skin diseases are common such as cat moss, and cat moss is also a type of disease that can be transmitted between humans and cats, so special attention should be paid to prevention and treatment. The treatment of fungal skin diseases after the onset is also a big problem. Some cats recover after treatment but relapse after a period of time. This requires some improvements in treatment methods and medications.

1. What is the difference between cat fungal skin diseases and other skin diseases?

Because the symptoms of this disease are similar to those of staphylococcal folliculitis and demodicosis, the following methods can be used for diagnosis. Woodlight examination (also known as filtered ultraviolet examination): Use Woodlight lamp to illuminate the lesion area, hair loss or dander in a dark room. Hair infected by Microsporum spores can fluoresce apple-green, while hair infected by Microsporum gypsum and Trichophyton mentagrophytes has no fluorescence or is a different color.

Or check the hair, pluck the hair from the inflammatory site or take the broken hair or take the fluorescent hair under the Wooden lamp, place it on the glass slide, add a few drops of 10%~20% KOH. Coverslip and apply heat for 30 minutes or slightly heat for 15 seconds. After the sample is transparent, check for fungal spores or hyphae.

Fungal culture can also be used. Hair and other diseased materials can be inoculated on dermatophyte test medium or Sabouraud medium, and cultured in 25R2. The growth of dermatophytes will cause the DTM to turn red, or according to the sand Identification was based on the color and morphology of the colonies on the culture medium and microscopic examination.

2. Precautions in the treatment of fungal skin diseases

Generally, for fungal skin diseases, you need to cut off the hair on the affected area first, and then apply anti- Fungus ointment, and in severe cases, you need to take a bath with medicine. At the same time, Ketocon tablets, griseofulvin tablets, etc. can be taken orally. During the period of taking the medicine, it is best to supplement vitamins and feed more fatty foods instead of alkaline foods such as milk.

In the treatment, it must be "thorough", otherwise the skin disease will recur. Pay attention to the following points, which will be much better:

1) It is best to keep the cage Remove all wooden furniture inside, expose it to the sun, don't use it for a while, and then put it back when it's completely healed. Because if fungi get on wood products, they can survive for a long time and form new vectors of infection.

2) Wipe the cage with 75% alcohol every day to allow it to evaporate naturally and disinfect.

3) Every time you apply medicine, carefully blow open all parts of the body. If you find new lesions, apply medicine immediately.

4) When applying the medicine, try to expand the area and moisten the joint between the bald spots and the fine hair.

5) Apply medicine until fine hairs appear, but usually fine hairs appear in the middle of the bald spot, but the surrounding area is still bald, and the surrounding circle is still contagious, so the surrounding bald area must also continue to apply the medicine It’s not considered until fine hair appearsThe bald spot is completely healed and is no longer contagious.

6) Keep the room cool and dry. Humidity and muggy heat are a paradise for fungi to thrive. In this way, "one after another" situations can be minimized.