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Originally Posted by carollyn88  With a 4-10 day incubation period, I can't place my daughter any where that she may have acquired this fungus. I've thought it over and over. She hasn't been around any other animals at all over the last two weeks. This fungus came on just days after we got the pup. Her neck started turning red and I honestly thought it was puppy scratches cause he likes to burrow up in our neck. Then after a few more days and a weekend away with her fellow girl scouts, they became circular and obvious ring worms.
My vet isn't adminstering oral meds. He is doing the weekly dip x3. I'm going to have to take puppy back in the morning. I feel some lesions on the pups ears but I can't tell if they look the same as what they look like on my daughters neck. The lesions on his ear seem to be getting better since the first dip.
I don't know why my vet can't give me a definitive answer. I feel like he's a good vet. He says the black light test will give a false negative or false positive. He said it's just not that reliable. He also said by the time the scrap culture comes back, he can be through with treatment. So I just don't know. I'll be glad when this crap is gone and we can go on about our lives.
Thank you for the advice.  |
Have you thought about the possibility of her aquiring this at school? As yucky as this sounds....I taught school and I know there were a few years where many children had ringworm and I got it too. It took forever for it to go away with medicine.