It isn’t often that we get someone who so voluntarily and graciously write up their home-caring experience for us to publish and share so it came as such a pleasant surprise to receive this email from Vincent Lim!
Thank you so much, Vincent!
Here’s Vincent’s inspiring story (below) – and it would be the 19th case we have shared; this is the compilation of all the sporo cases we have encountered : https://animalcare.my/2014/04/29/tiger-day-54/
There are actually more than just 19 cases we have helped, but some do not write it up for us.
If you have any sharing on medical cases or pet-caring experience, please send it to me and we will publish it for the benefit of all our readers and animals!
Now, let’s be inspired by Stripey’s story!
An Overview of a Sporo Recovery – by Vincent Lim
Frist of all, I am extremely grateful to this website https://animalcare.my/ which is managed by Dr Chan Kah Yein, Founder-President-TagTeam Member and her team. Through the various posts about caring sporo cats, I managed to learn a lot and was encouraged to help Stripey, my cat.
Stripey can be considered an indoor cat. He would wander around the house compound with his siblings but on a leash. Up to today, I have no idea how he got sporo. My suspicion is that somehow the fungus spores entered his body through open wound.
The post below was written in August 2023.
Today marks the 42nd day of one of my cats diagnosed with sporo. His prognosis is good as he does not have FIV and the sporo infection was at an early stage. All the 8 lesions-open wound with a few as large as a five sen coin- spread quickly (within a week of discovery of the first lesion) all over his body and legs(but none on his face)have all dried out as of today. A week ago, vet took a culture of one of his drying wounds and found no sporo. Good news. But will have to continue to pill him (not easy), once a day for another month.
We give him all the care we possibly could. He has to be quarantined from the rest of the clowder. Wounds have to be cleaned twice a day and medicine applied. Disposable rubber gloves and long sleeves have to be worn as sporo is zoonotic as it can pass to human and can be devastating. Masks are to be worn when cleaning the cat litter as the spores can go to our lungs. Nails have to be trimmed to ensure he could not scratch me (or bite me- have to wear leather gloves when i pill him). I happened to have a portable Medklinn air sterilizer which helps. Next is to bathe him with Malaseb medicated shampoo when the wounds really dry out.
We take him for walks and to sunbathe twice a day. The paws have to be cleaned with nano silver wipe. First 20 days, he was fitted with a collar to prevent him from licking the open wounds. Catio has to be cleaned once 2-3 days with dissolved chlorine tablet in water (brand Germicep, by Hovid, which we bought during covid period! Clorox should do too) with recommended sanitation concentration. Then wipe clean the residual chlorine water. Hand sanitizers nor alcohol which we use for covid does not kill sporo.
Medicine: Itraconzole (low dosage, as indicated by vet, once a day for 3 months)
Supplements: Vetri DMG and Himalaya Liv52. Both are liquid form and the smell can easily be camouflaged in wet food. Vetri DMG has no or little smell but Liv52 has a strong herbal smell.
To clean wound:
First 2 weeks: Nano silver liquid to clean with cotton and spray.
From 3rd week onwards: Continue to clean with nano silver liquid followed by Himalaya Scavon spray to wound, alternate with Topederm cream and coconut oils with neem (Western meets Eastern).
An Update
Vincent Lim
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