TLDR: my cat has been ringworm free for 2 years, but no hair ever grew back in some of the spots. Anyone seen this before and want to put me at ease?
Hi all! Wondering if anyone has ever seen this before. I adopted my cat about 2.5 years ago and when I got him he has a pretty bad case of ringworm, probably 20+ little circular bald spots on his upper back and a few on his head/neck. I have no idea how long he had it for, but he had been in the shelter for a month, and it very likely could have started before he got there. Went through months of treatment (oral + topical, then lime sulfur to finish it off) and he was finally officially ringworm free. Luckily I never got it from him and didn’t have any other pets/people in the house with him.
In the ~2 years since, a lot of the spots have had some hair grow back, all white (he’s a black cat), but a few have zero or almost no regrowth. I did have a culture done a year ago that came back negative, but I feel perpetually a little bit stressed that it never fully went away or it came back or something. I’ve never seen any active scabbing on any of the bald spots, and neither I nor the roommate I have lived with for a while now have ever shown symptoms, but every other story of ringworm I’ve read about ends with the hair growing back in within a year.
Basically, I’m asking if anyone has ever seen ringworm damage the skin enough for there to never be any regrow.
Hi all! Wondering if anyone has ever seen this before. I adopted my cat about 2.5 years ago and when I got him he has a pretty bad case of ringworm, probably 20+ little circular bald spots on his upper back and a few on his head/neck. I have no idea how long he had it for, but he had been in the shelter for a month, and it very likely could have started before he got there. Went through months of treatment (oral + topical, then lime sulfur to finish it off) and he was finally officially ringworm free. Luckily I never got it from him and didn’t have any other pets/people in the house with him.
In the ~2 years since, a lot of the spots have had some hair grow back, all white (he’s a black cat), but a few have zero or almost no regrowth. I did have a culture done a year ago that came back negative, but I feel perpetually a little bit stressed that it never fully went away or it came back or something. I’ve never seen any active scabbing on any of the bald spots, and neither I nor the roommate I have lived with for a while now have ever shown symptoms, but every other story of ringworm I’ve read about ends with the hair growing back in within a year.
Basically, I’m asking if anyone has ever seen ringworm damage the skin enough for there to never be any regrow.
