Caught ringworm from someone’s cat, should I post to Facebook

That's what I thought at the time, maybe I'm misremembering and they weren't antibiotics but there were definitely 3 lots of tablets and it's didn't go until I finished the last course.

Antibiotics for a fungal infection?! That wouldn’t work unless the ringworm wounds were infected with a bacterial infection on top. I just had some anti fungal cream from the pharmacist, worked a treat.

They won’t care, they’ll just watch you from the shed and laugh, evil bastards that they are 😂

I did catch ringworm from my cat, he scratched me accidentally, bless him (I loved that cat, my favourite of many in my life) and the vet had just diagnosed him with ringworm and said that teen girls were the most likely to catch it - he was right!

Anyway, just wanted to post and say it isn't very nice and for me it took 3 lots of antibiotics to shift. Don't be backwards about going to the doctor again if the cream doesn't work.

You win Mumsnet today 😀

This comes across as a bit unhinged. Even if it did transpire that cats had given you ringworm I am struggling to see what posting about it on Facebook would accomplish?

Cats can’t read or type (mercifully) so it would go a bit over their heads surely? Mine fail to follow instructions when shouted. What makes you think social media is the best channel for a non literate animal?

@catphone the rash look like the below based on the pictures you have posted.

If so my dd who has various forms of eczema had thus when she was 2.5. She ended uo in hospital as she was so poorly with it. It isn't ringworm (although gp thought it was) and turned out to be a viral infection that she had had an allergic reaction to.

Do you have a fever. Even low grade?

Catching ringworm without actually touching an infected animal is exceptionally rare and tbh massively unlikely.

It is far more likely that the person who delivered your shopping had it and you picked it uo by touching the same items.

However frustrated you are about the cats in your garden you are being a bit ridiculous blaming them for this.

Cats in your garden is irritating. Don't put bark down, your garden will look and feel like a big cat litter tray. There are lots of plants that cats avoid so maybe more planting? And a water pistol, humane but effective. I don't know what your skin infection is but if you aren't happy go back to the doctor's and ask them to look at it again. Ringworm is very infectious and you could have contracted it from many places. It's unlikely to be the cats unless you were petting them which I take from your posts that you weren't doing.

Get back at them, OP. Go shit in their gardens. That’ll learn ‘em.

More likely a reaction to the plants. I often get itchy and blotchy after gardening!

I do agree though that cats shitting in your garden is not good. Friend of mine solved it by getting a cat scarer sonic thing which she’s pushed in her lawn. Emits a high pitched noise which adults can’t hear and keeps the cats away. Kids might be affected as well which in my mind would be a bonus but depends if you have kids.

That’s probably why they take a dump in your garden

Ringworm isn’t itchy or painful so it’s very unlikely to be that. It also goes away by itself after 3-4 weeks, treated or not.

I hope whatever it is clears up soon.

i haven’t gone out and touched anything with my bare hands either.

what never?

you can’t catch ringworm from cat poo, especially when you haven’t touched the poo. If you haven’t been stroking the cats they are not the source of your fungal infection.

What will Facebook do about it?

This infection could happen to anybody.

This is not how fungus sporelates, from cats crapping in your flower beds.

I grow mushrooms/fungus as a hobby. The spores are microscopic and invisible to the naked human eye. Sure, it’s possible that a cat has some on its coat but it’s also just as possible that the wind blew it into you or you touched a contaminated person/door handle/work surface. If you were to hold up an agar plate in your house/garden for 30 seconds and then culture it, you would partially have dozens of contaminants.

i also used to breed guinea pigs and ring worm is incredibly common with them, and skinny hairless pigs are especially susceptible to it as they have no hair to protect them. But the ring worm is actually often brought in on the hay and doesn’t lie dormant in the pig. But I’ve it’s in your environment it’s very very hard to eradicate and the scratching/skin shedding cycle means it’s spread easily.

This infection could

Bark doesn’t work. I put some round my garden and they still dig and mess in it
ive just bought fine black net and will put that over the garden and plants

You can complain, of course.
But what do you want us to do?
You are convinced, despite every PP telling you differently, that this is from cat poo. Announcing this on Fb will not stop the cats relieving themselves in your garden.

As @nervousnellylikesjaffacakes and others have said, it sounds and looks like Pityriasis Rosea. I had it when I was at uni, the doctor said it's usually a one off event and I've never had it since, but did take a couple of months for it to go.

Do it, it'll make a change from the usual Merry Christmas post that seem everywhere today 🤣

OP it is highly unlikely you caught ringworm from the soil - that is incredibly rare and even then required prolonged contact with the soil. It will have been skin to skin contact with an infected person or animal.

i had ring worm a couple of years ago- cleared up very quickly with the cream. Never figured out where I caught it - but probably from a family pet. No big deal.

When I saw the photos I thought it was this too.

Edited to add that it starts off with one large circle and then lots of other patches arise, very itchy but not contagious

Of course not. Not on Facebook. That's only for old people and 'squares'.

Put it on Insta or maybe TikTok in which case you include the cat poo with devil horns or something.

You have my sympathy OP. We had several neighbourhoods cats pooing in our garden as it is disputed territory and they are fighting over it. I have implemented a humane anti-cat poo system.

• I have put down pieces of flagstones in all my shrub and flower beds. So the plants now grow between the cracks between stones. Cats can’t dig through stone.
• Where-ever there is bare earth- the cracks between stones, under a shrub canopy or tree, I regularly scatter my coffee grounds. Cats don’t like how coffee grounds feel on their paws.
• I have been colonising my garden with cat repelling plants- lavender, rosemary, sage, leopards bane. They’re not poisonous to cats, cats just don’t like the way they smell.

The cats now poo directly on the grass, usually in the same few spots. The frequency has gone way down from 1-2poos a day to once or twice a week.

I can easily see it when I do a cat poo sweep on a morning. I go out and scoop it up using disposable gloves & kitchen roll and put it in the rubbish (can’t flush it or use the garden waste bin per the rules).

I know it’s bit of a hassle, but the only way to avoid the diseases that are carried by cat poo is to get ahead of the cats and assiduously remove poo as fast as it is deposited. In your description, you mentioned being careful not to touch cat poo around your shrubs. It is leaving it there that is causing you the health risks.

I don’t have a cat myself, but I don’t mind them patrolling through my garden as it means I don’t worry about rats or mice :)