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Heidi Hocker
| | Posted on Tuesday, Mar 28, 2000 - 4:38 pm: |   |
I have a 3 yr old filly that has been diagnosed with a fungal infection (Positive skin scraping for fungus). I have tried all of the topical ointments and washes that the vet has prescribed. The fungus will seem to go away, and then comes back about 2 weeks after I finish the treatment. We have tried contintuing treatment for up to 6 weeks after the symptoms disappear and the fungus comes back.
My vet is talking about putting her on Fulvicin(sp). I couldn't find any information on it in the medication menu, and am wondering if anyone has any experience with it.
Thanks for the help
Heidi |
Robert N. Oglesby DVM
| | Posted on Wednesday, Mar 29, 2000 - 7:45 am: | |
Hello Heidi,
We had an article in the works on Fulvacin so I finished it and put it up in the Medications: Antimicrobials section.
DrO |
Heidi Hocker
| | Posted on Friday, Mar 31, 2000 - 12:04 pm: | |
DrO:
Thanks for the info, I just have a question. When I had the skin scraping done on my filly, I didn't have the lab do the speciation (sp). They ran the test on a general media for fungus. Should I have the test re-run and have them try to identify which fungus is causing the problem? Will it matter, as far as whether or not the Fulvacin will work?
Thanks,
Heidi |
Robert N. Oglesby DVM
| | Posted on Friday, Mar 31, 2000 - 2:39 pm: | |
It will not matter as long as it is one of the ringworm type fungi. Ill bet they ran a DTM culture that looks for a color change if it is ringworm and it is a pretty good test.
DrO |
