I wake up one day and one of my two kittens jumps in my bed. I see three bumps near his ear and mouth. Call the vet and they refuse to give me a straight answer so I'm forced to drag myself and the kitten across the city to the vet. Then she tells me it's ringworm and says he needs medication in the form of oral medicine and topical wipes. I have money and it didn't sound like something I could get so I shrugged and paid for it. It's likely he got it from the other kitten who was allegedly cured of ringworm before the shelter handed him over.
I give him his first dose when I get home and eventually find out that it is communicable and you have to do a bunch of nonsense to get rid of it. Sulfur baths, boiling, quarantine, washing clothes and sheets, bleach solutions, 1 in 4 part cleaning solutions, etc. Then on top of that it's said to be airborne anyways.
Quite frankly I live in a 1 BR apt and I am both too lazy and completely unwilling to do any of this except for washing my bed sheets and putting him in his oversized carrier for a month. It's just too much work. Im not buying buying steam vaccum and I'm not bleaching my kitchen when I dont know where he's been anyways. If I get it I get it.
What I want to know is what are the chances of me getting it if I just start rubbing anti-fungal cream on my body before it shows up.
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