Can cats recover from ringworm on their own?

Cat ringworm is a fungal skin disease that usually does not heal on its own. Cat ringworm is a fungal infection. During treatment, antifungal sprays and medications are naturally used, and the cat’s own resistance is increased to help the cat recover as soon as possible. In the initial stage, with early detection and early treatment, cats can recover quickly, and treatment is not difficult. Pet owners can refer to the following:

Isolation and disinfection

You must know that cat ringworm is highly contagious, so isolation is a necessary step. At the same time, the home environment must be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected, and daily necessities must be washed and dried frequently to kill residual fungi and avoid secondary infections.

Dealing with cat ringworm

After taking isolation measures for the cat, the owner must start to remove cat ringworm. You can first shave off the hair on the cat’s ringworm area and wipe it with hydrogen peroxide. After air drying, spray Miaomanqu to help clean the affected area. Then apply an appropriate amount of Wangmiao Skin Selection and massage for 5 to 10 minutes to allow the skin to fully absorb the ointment. Keep using it during the treatment until the skin gradually recovers and stabilizes.

Internal supplementation

After cat ringworm care is done, the owner also needs to feed the cat appropriate nutritious food to help improve its physical fitness and have enough ability to resist fungal infection. If you have time, make some cat rice to provide balanced nutrition; if you don’t have time, you can directly feed it with nutritional paste or canned food, and add Home Vitamin B and Pet Itch Fun to the cat food to supplement the required nutrients and help strengthen the skin’s vitamin function and Reduces itching problems and aids recovery.

Parents who raise cats must be familiar with cat ringworm. Some parents even abandon their cats because cat ringworm is difficult to cure. Why do cat ringworm attacks come and go again and again? Why do cats get ringworm? Today Youxiang is here to give you the answer.

What exactly is cat ringworm?

Ringworm is the most common fungal skin disease in cats. About 90% of cat ringworm cases are caused by Microsporum canis. Cat ringworm can be transmitted directly through contact with infected cats, or indirectly through contaminated dust, clothing, etc.
Compared with other pathogenic microorganisms, fungi are relatively tenacious, so it is common for cats to have ringworm relapse even after they recover.
Cat ringworm does not necessarily have symptoms. Many young cats will develop fungal skin diseases, but the mother cat will not show any obvious symptoms. This is very normal. Many cats who are exposed to the fungus will only develop a mild, self-healing infection, with at best hair loss and skin discoloration.
Of course, we see more clinically in cats with systemic infection, especially in young cats. You can usually see extensive hair loss, rash, skin ulceration, and scabs. The most troublesome thing is that this fungus can also be transmitted to parents.

What harm does cat ringworm do to cats?

If a cat is infected with tinea felis, if it is a mild infection with no obvious symptoms, it will have basically no impact on the cat and will recover on its own over time.
If it is a severe infection with severe symptoms, the cat will definitely show skin symptoms that slowly spread from the local area to the whole body, such as hair loss, rash, ulceration, and scabs. Often, cats will be so itchy that they bite themselves.
At the same time, cats will also shake off fungi when moving, creating a large-scale fungal environment that can infect other animals and humans.

How to correctly treat cat ringworm?

Although cat ringworm sounds scary, it is actually neither a terminal disease nor a disease that is particularly difficult to cure. The reason why there are so many cases of recurring attacks is mostly because there is no continuous treatment, or the medicine is stopped hastily as soon as the effect is seen.
If such unstandardized treatment is repeated too often, the fungus will develop drug resistance, making it increasingly difficult to treat cat ringworm. Therefore, it is crucial to treat cat ringworm correctly and strive for complete cure.
In normal treatment, it is first necessary to confirm whether the pathogen is a fungus and whether there are other types of pathogens? Then use targeted medication based on the results. Skin diseases caused by many pathogens are very similar, and many times cats are infected by more than one pathogen. Predictive medication may lead to recurrence of the disease.
Cat ringworm is a disease with strong expansion ability. Simple topical medication may accelerate the expansion of the fungus to the surrounding area. At this time, it needs to be suppressed with systemic oral medication or regular medicated baths. Parents need to note that cat ringworm usually “takes care” of cats with low immunity. Therefore, increasing the cat’s immunity and repairing and strengthening the cat’s skin structure are very helpful for the recovery of cat ringworm.
Finally, the home environment needs to be kept fungus-free. You can prepare an ultraviolet lamp at home and place it in various closed spaces for sterilization and disinfection. Parents need to pay attention to personal safety and avoid direct exposure to ultraviolet rays.

How to correctly prevent cat ringworm?

First of all, it is necessary to fundamentally enhance the immunity of cats. Cats with strong immunity are less likely to be infected with severe cat ringworm; secondly, they must pay attention to hygiene. Parents need to pay attention to the hygiene conditions of themselves and their families every time they go home to prevent cats from coming into contact with Fungi; finally, you can purchase a Wood’s lamp at home (a bit like a money detector lamp) to detect fungi (fungi appear fluorescent light green under the lamp).