Often animals walking on the street are susceptible to various infections. This is how ringworm in a cat may appear . Treating your pet at home is one of the available ways to combat parasites. We learn more about this disease and how to get rid of it with folk remedies.
Microsporia is a type of fungal disease that is common among animals. People call it ringworm. It can affect a cat of any breed and is able not only to grow quickly, but also to infect other animals and even people. Cats with weakened immunity are most often infected with this infection, so it is very important to take care of their nutrition.
Cat Disease: versicolor
The photo posted in the article clearly demonstrates this type of parasite lesion, the incubation period of which can last from 7 days to a month. This type of fungus destroys the hair shaft, which makes it brittle and subsequently dies. This forms bare rough patches of skin that can cause mild itching. Ringworm can be identified under an ultraviolet lamp (for tanning or recognition of notes) - it takes on a greenish tint.
How to get rid of microsporum?
If a cat has ringworm, treatment at home can both help and hurt, especially if certain injections are necessary. Therefore, it is advisable to seek the help of a veterinarian. If this is not possible, medications for external use should be purchased at the veterinary pharmacy: Mycozolin, Mycofungin, Defungin. Pet owners who can vaccinate can buy Wakderm, Polivak. In this case, you must strictly follow the recommendations of the instructions.
Alternative treatment depriving cats
There are alternative ways to rid your pet of the disease. Alternative treatment provides for a certain time and following the instructions for preparing the desired drug. If a cat’s lichen has formed, treatment at home with the help of alternative medicine will help to destroy it using natural, natural products that do not contain chemical elements. Everything you need is usually at hand or at affordable prices. Sometimes this approach may not be the best because of the longer duration. Consider some treatment options:
- you can get rid of lichen if you wash the affected area with tar soap several times a day;
- break the egg, remove the protein and yolk from it. Separate and attach the film located on the inside of the shell to the irritated area;
- sprinkle lichen regularly with dry manganese.
Deprive the cat. Home treatment with Wanga's prescriptions
- Grate raisins and thoroughly grease the affected skin.
- Lubricate the sore spot with milk of milk.
- Apply a mixture of sulfur to lichen.
Other Russian healers believe that cranberry juice, viburnum, a mixture of sulfur and olive oil will help to cope with the disease. There is the following method: to smear the damaged skin with garlic, then rub birch charcoal mixed with burdock root for half an hour.
You can still make an ointment from calendula, burdock and hops. To do this, take 20 grams of burdock roots and hop cones, mix them with 10 grams of calendula (flowers) and make a decoction. The resulting mixture is applied in a thin layer on lichen. Repeat several times.