"Meow Coffee", "Lump Cat", "Cloud Sucking Cat"... Now more and more people fall in love with pets, not only at home, but coffee shops, western restaurants, online celebrity check-in shops, etc. also like to raise kittens Puppies come to attract customers.
However, as the saying goes, "ten cats and nine mosses", cat moss is a very common cat skin disease. But if you encounter people with low resistance, you may also be infected.
Adopting a kitten. The girl has red spots on her body.
Meimei (pseudonym), who is a sophomore in this year, never thought that she would be infected with the legendary "cat moss" after touching a cat a few times.
Meimei has always envied her classmates who keep cats at home, and she often sees them posting cats to friends. It just so happened that a roommate's kitten was pregnant and was about to give birth, so she made an appointment to ask for one, and visited the mother cat twice, so she had an addiction in advance.
Unexpectedly, shortly after contacting the female cat for the first time, Mei Mei developed a red and swollen plaque on her leg. "It's about 1 cm in diameter. There is a circle of red protrusions on the outside, like a pit, very itchy." Meimei and the reporter recalled the patch: "I thought it was bitten by some insect, so I applied some toilet water and wind oil. Fine stuff." The rash was healed after a while, but it left a scar.
Later, the mother cat gave birth to kittens, and Meimei took them home to raise them, and she would lick the cats every day. Unexpectedly, this time it was replaced by erythema growing on the arm, itching intolerable. As a last resort, Mei Mei could only come to the Dermatology Department of the Third People's Hospital Affiliated to Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Deputy Chief Physician Lin Ying, who was admitted by
, visited the doctor in detail and asked her medical history to tell her that this was caused by cat moss infection. Meimei then recalled that the shaved part of the female cat had scabs. There are also red patches on the kittens.
It is common for pet owners to treat people and pets. Don’t pull down
cat ringworm. It refers to cats’ skin diseases. The common areas are the face, trunk, limbs and tail, and round or oval ringworm spots appear. The coat is covered with gray scales, and the color of the coat will become rough. The coat of the ringworm part will fall off and break or fall off. Cats infected with cat ringworm have a huge itching, so they often scratch various objects. "In fact, moss is not only found on cats, but also on dogs or other pets, but cats are the most common." Lin Ying said, "Cat moss is actually a fungal infection, which can infect humans through contact, causing tinea corporis. Clinically, such patients are not. It’s rare. But not all cats suffering from cat moss will infect their owners. This also depends on the strength of the individual’s immunity.” The
reporter also learned from Mei Mei that the classmate who raised the mother cat and his family did not No cat moss infection.
"If a person is infected with cat moss, the owner and cat must be treated together. And adhere to the treatment." Lin Ying emphasized that if you are infected with tinea corporis, you must go to the dermatology clinic in time for fungal microscopy and culture to identify the pathogenic fungus. Antifungal ointment can be used externally for treatment. If the rash is severe, antifungal drugs can be taken orally. If the patient's compliance is high, follow the regular course of treatment, the cure rate of fungal therapy is very high. But the problem is that some fungal treatments have a long course of treatment, and the patients cannot persist for a long time, and stop the medicine as soon as they get better, leading to prolonged healing. If the fungus is not eliminated, it is easy to make a comeback and even lead to resistance.
In addition, if someone in the family is infected, you must keep a distance from other family members, do not directly touch, do not wash clothes, separate dishes, and do not touch normal cats to prevent infection.
