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Hello everyone! I found this wonderful website shortly after adopting my first kitten! Unfortunately, he came to us with a whole slew of health problems (giardia, coccidia, a tapeworm, and the dreaded RINGWORM). He was diagnosed via Wood's Lamp examination on Nov 4 2023 (yes. we've been dealing with this for that long :/) I believe the reason his treatment was prolonged for so long was a combination of two things; 1- his immune system was compromised from the other health issues he was dealing with and 2- our vet initially prescribed a compounded itraconazole medicine (which if you know anything about ringworm treatment you know that compounded itraconazole is useless - little to no bioavailability in the bloodstream). As soon as our kitty received his diagnosis he was quarantined to our spare room, we're a couple with no children that live in a 2 bedroom apartment. I proceeded to scour the forums on this page and deep-cleaned our entire apartment head to toe. I deep clean his quarantine room every 2/3 days, change the litter often, etc. We treated him with pure itraconazole starting Nov 29th for 5 weeks using pulse therapy (one week on, one week off) and various topical treatments including lime sulfur spray solution, miconazole ointment, and combo Chlorhexidine and Ketoconazole wipes.
This brings us to today, ALL of Kitty's lesions have cleared, and are growing hair back, he's had NO new lesions for 2 weeks. He visited the vet on Monday (January 15th) for a hair follicle/culture test because our vet wants to rule out a "persistent infection". We did a Wood's Lamp examination and NOTHING glowed, nothing. However, the culture takes about 10 days they do the culture in-house which is great. I checked in today with the vet and they said there had been no growth thus far (day 3) but that they have to give it the full 10 days to rule out anything. She says we can let him out but that it's still a gamble and would be better if we just waited until the results come back, which makes me nervous and apprehensive about letting him out now (I don't think I can mentally go through another deep-clean of everything, and I don't think kitty will take to being set free and then being put back).
So my question is, do you think it's safe enough to reintroduce him to the rest of the apartment now? I feel worse with every day that goes by and I know the little guy is feeling it too. He's spent nearly 3 months of his 5 months alive in a quarantined room and I know he's bored and getting sad/frustrated that he can't be with us. ANY INPUT IS HELPFUL - this site has been so incredibly helpful through this insane time.
This brings us to today, ALL of Kitty's lesions have cleared, and are growing hair back, he's had NO new lesions for 2 weeks. He visited the vet on Monday (January 15th) for a hair follicle/culture test because our vet wants to rule out a "persistent infection". We did a Wood's Lamp examination and NOTHING glowed, nothing. However, the culture takes about 10 days they do the culture in-house which is great. I checked in today with the vet and they said there had been no growth thus far (day 3) but that they have to give it the full 10 days to rule out anything. She says we can let him out but that it's still a gamble and would be better if we just waited until the results come back, which makes me nervous and apprehensive about letting him out now (I don't think I can mentally go through another deep-clean of everything, and I don't think kitty will take to being set free and then being put back).
So my question is, do you think it's safe enough to reintroduce him to the rest of the apartment now? I feel worse with every day that goes by and I know the little guy is feeling it too. He's spent nearly 3 months of his 5 months alive in a quarantined room and I know he's bored and getting sad/frustrated that he can't be with us. ANY INPUT IS HELPFUL - this site has been so incredibly helpful through this insane time.
