my kittens have ringworm wats the best way to get rid of it?????

Answer 1

Treat with something like Lamisil cream to lesions daily. If they are longhairs, shave them BALD. That makes it much easier to treat. Bring NO NEW animals into the home for at least 18 months. The spores can live in the environment that long. It spreads very easily!!! Any animals or humans that come into contact with the spores can get it.
You may have to treat for a few months. You can shampoo with an antifungal shampoo twice weekly also, but you should treat with the antifungal cream daily. Keep the environment as clean as possible.
It is a long haul, but it WILL go away at some point!!!!!!

RW is pretty self limiting. It occurs in colonies of feral cats also, and it resolves itself. Some cats are going to get it worse than others. Cats and humans with immune compromise are going to be the most effected. Keeping the cats in otherwise good health and feeding them a good diet through treatment will help. We have had RW at the shelter many times and NEVER had a cat die from it!!!!!!

A skin scrape will NOT show RW. Your vet would need to do a fungal culture. Skin scrapes show MANGE.

Answer 2

ringworm is a fungal infection and it is contagious. You probably already know this, but those facts determine the treatment.

The same medicine that cures athlete's foot cures ringworm, miconizole nitrate. Desenex cream. You need to buy a tube of Desenex cream, and rub it into the spots on each of your kittens. But there's more to it than that. Because it is contagious, you have to remove the contamination from the environment, and you have to be sure the kittens don't reinfect each other.

So the first thing you need to do is find a place you are going to keep the kittens that has not been contaminated by them already. A cage (for 3-4 days) would be ideal. The bathroom, if it is tiled, and can be washed down with a solution of chlorine bleach and soap, would be fine.

The next thing you need to do is to take up all their bedding, their food and water bowls, and their litter pan. Wash the bedding, food and water bowls in hot soapy water with chlorine bleach added. Do the same with the litter pan and refill it with fresh litter. Get a big can of Lysol -- only Lysol -- spray disinfectant, and spray every surface these kittens hang out on.

then you need to bathe each kitten. Dry each kitten. Put Desenex on each little round spot, and rub it in (because of course, they will lick any excess, but this teeny amount won't hurt). And put the cleaned, disinfected, annointed kitten in the cage or the bathroom they are to be kept in, and move on to the next kitten and repeat. Keep them quarantined from the environment for 3-4 days. Annoint them with Desenex twice daily during this time. After you handle them use hand sanitizer, and should any spots show up on you, use Desenex for that as well.

The lesions will get an over-the-hill look, a little crusty, a little faded, and no new lesions will appear. Once you've achieved this state in all your kittens, give them one more quarantined day to be sure, and then release them into the disinfected environment.

That should do it. I worked with several cat rescue groups here in NYC, and rescued animals not infrequently came off the streets with ringworm. this always cured it.

Good luck

Answer 3

Your vet will have to do a skin scrape to find out what type of ringworm it is and you'll have to administer an prescribed anit-fungal, whetherr on the skin or as a pill. You can also try Lamisil, but if the ringworm isn't stopping and more spots are showing up, or it's spreading faster than you can treat it, take the kitten to the vet. Becareful that you wear gloves when handling the kitten, ringworms are transferable from pets to humans, It happened to me when I was caring for a puppy with ringworm.

Answer 4

Fast Ringworm Cure?

Answer 5

In healthy shorthaired kittens and cats with small isolated lesions, the ringworm infection will often resolve without treatment in about four months. The goal with these animals is to treat any underlying conditions, provide good nutrition, and prevent the spread to other animals. Remission of the disease without treatment is also possible in longhaired cats although it might take from 1 to 4 years to resolve. Longhaired cats especially Persians and Himalayans in breeding colonies can be very difficult to treat.

Ringworm
http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?cls=1&cat=2023&articleid=223

Answer 6

I don't know if this will work on Kittens but we use it to treat ring worm on horses and it works really fast - Preparation H - yes that ointment. Be aware that you can catch ringworm from your pet also - but being a kitten I would consider taking them into the vets office.

Answer 7

The only effective treatment for ringworm is a prescription anti fungal from your vet.

Answer 8

Get to the vet or you will have ringworms, too!!!!! They are very contagious and very uncool for people.

Answer 9

get you kittens to the vets and get them treated as soon as possible!

Answer 10

Please take it to your vet. The ring worm can kill him/her. I had one that was killed from ringworm even tho I had him to the vet and was giving him the meds that he needed.
Good luck