Friday, January 8, 2010

Where do I find shampoo for ringworm for a kitten?

Is it something you can just buy in a store? Vet prescribed liquid oral ketoconazole but I want to make sure the spores are out of her fur too. She is only about 4 months old. Is there shampoo OTC anywhere?Where do I find shampoo for ringworm for a kitten?
Go to a website called; jefferspet.com. They have all kinds of things you might need. They will mail it to you.Where do I find shampoo for ringworm for a kitten?
I bought mine from the Vet, but later I found one at the drug store. Just look for a shampoo that has ketoconazole in it. It will most likely be dandruff shampoo and be 1%. What you get from the vet would be 2%. If your kitty is taking meds and you just want to get the spores out of her fur the 1% should work. Even ask the pharmacist.
I bought antifungal shampoo right from the vet; they had me bathe the kittens twice a week while they had the ringworm in addition to the lotion medication. This is the brand they sold me: http://www.lambertvetsupply.com/Malaseb-鈥?/a>





They were about 4 months at the time as well, so it should be safe for yours.
Your vet should give you an anti-fungal cream or pill for your cat to take. I'm not sure a shampoo will do the trick...
You can probably purchase Malaseb shampoo from your Vet...it's antibacterial and antifungal....try google and see who else carries it. Good luck!
Buy a tube of Desenex -- miconizole nitrate. The same stuff you use for athlete's foot, which like ringworm, is a fungus. Put a little bit of it into each of her ringworm lesions, and rub it in so she doesn't lick it off. It won't hurt her, but you want the med in the lesion.





Do not rub it into her fur, though, as she really could ingest too much of it this way. And that is the problem with a shampoo, if there is one. Whatever you wash a cat with will be ingested by them when they lick themselves dry, and since you don't know how much if any trouble that will cause her, it's best to err on the conservative side, and just stick with what the vet gave you.





Ringworm can be a problem if you have more than one cat, but with just one, it's really pretty easy to get rid of. I worked with cat rescue groups here in NYC, and we just used Desenex to get rid of the ringworm. Works like a charm. Just stick with your vet med and maybe pick up a tube of Desenex, but don't go into overkill mode, or you may wind up hurting this finally very young animal.
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Ring worm is a fungus rather than a worm. Use any anti-fungal cream as directed on the box.

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