kittens with ringworm

[jennifer19]

*sigh* so I'm a sucker... we have taken in a 5-6 week old kitten that my fiance's coworker found in a box in a dumpster behind their job. :-( There were 4, three were immediately placed and 1 came home with us this evening. He is quite possibly one of the cutest things I have seen in a long time. :-) ANYWAY, we took him to the vet this evening

Comments

[maynda]

Sea salt and vinegar paste. Also, keep in mind that it's highly contagious. If the cat lays on a rug or towel and you come in contact with those surfaces you can catch it.

[maynda]

Also, don't know if GSE is safe for kittens but that's a good alternative.

[akaleia]

anti-fungal is the way to go. You can get it too.. I took in a kitten (I work at a vet hospital and we get strays all the time) fostering her until I found her a home and she had ringworm. I had to go to my Dr. and get a really expensive tube of cream to put on the red spots on my skin. My niece that visited got it too. Take the baby kitty to the vet and they will help. Good luck!

[tinelith]

Ask your vet. My cat had ringworm a long time ago, and I got it from him, too. I think we used the same cream that I got from the dermatologist for it to treat the cat as well. We also washed ourselves (not the cat, tho!) with anti-dandruff shampoo (Head&Shoulders, but really anything containing pyrithione zinc is anti-fungal)to stop us catching it anywhere else. Admittedly not very natural, but worked ok.

[formicadinette]

My 18 year-old cat had ringworm when I got him as a kitten. We got rid of it pretty easily with OTC anti-fungal cream on him (it was on his head, so harder for him to ingest when cleaning himself) and diligently washing hands and clothing. Sorry, not terribly natural.

[marmalade_girl_]

Keeping surfaces clean, washing poor little kitteh-face, and waiting for the vet's advice is the best I can come up with.

I would be cautious with coming into contact with stuff that the kitten has access to, but I get the impression that experiences with ringworm are different for everyone. In all the people I've known who contracted it, it was very contagious early, but as long as they treated it with antifungals relatively quickly, it was gone very soon. It used to pop up at my school occasionally, but it never spread beyond two or three people (even the time it cropped up in the theater department and we had to throw away all our makeup....yeah. good times).