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If a person were to have an one-off contact with a dog with a confirmed case of ringworm, if they had been infected, what would the incubation period be before symptoms were present?

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If a person were to have an one-off contact with a dog with a confirmed case of ringworm, if they had been infected, what would the incubation period be before symptoms were present?

Usually 10 - 14 days.

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The incubation period is the time from your exposure/time of infection with the ringworm to the time when you show symptoms of the infection.

I believe that with most infections, if not all, you are contagious in the incubation period -so spreading the bacteria or virus too other people or animals - but you probably are not aware that you are.

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If a person were to have an one-off contact with a dog with a confirmed case of ringworm, if they had been infected, what would the incubation period be before symptoms were present?

Usually 10 - 14 days.

cool, thank you!!!

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Oh right.

I have had ringworm a couple of time & it is a pain to git rid of!! When you see the first spot on your body start putting the cream on & try to stop it as much as possible because it gets worse before it gets better. You're prob best going to buy some tinea cream from the pharmacy as soon as you can.

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I had it a few years ago when I worked in an animal shelter.....got it 8 times in 12 months....just kept going (with treatment) and then 4 weeks later would pop up again!!! Since then I've had contact with infected animals and haven't developed symptoms, so I'm hoping I won't this time....as soon as I realised, I washed myself & my clohtes, so it's a pretty small risk I guess.

It's such a PITA condition.....just hangs around looking ugly!!!!

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I managed to convince OH he must be an asymptomatic carrier, and was spreading it (he wasn't, but it was funny :laugh: ).

So evil :)

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Ringworm is fungal, not viral or bacterial.

It is the same family of nuisance as Athlete's Foot. You catch it by coming into contact with the fungal spores, usually they are attached to the hair shaft of an animal, which is why you can be reinfected by a hair in the environment long after the animal has been "cured". Ringworm will fluoresce under a blacklight.

People that contract ringworm often develop a resistance to it and never develop the lesions on subsequent exposures.

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Ringworm is fungal, not viral or bacterial.

It is the same family of nuisance as Athlete's Foot. You catch it by coming into contact with the fungal spores, usually they are attached to the hair shaft of an animal, which is why you can be reinfected by a hair in the environment long after the animal has been "cured". Ringworm will fluoresce under a blacklight.

People that contract ringworm often develop a resistance to it and never develop the lesions on subsequent exposures.

Yeh that is why I had to use Tinia cream, which is for Athlete's Foot normally. But I have unfortunatley had it 2 or 3 times. It must love me. :)

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Ringworm is fungal, not viral or bacterial.

It is the same family of nuisance as Athlete's Foot. You catch it by coming into contact with the fungal spores, usually they are attached to the hair shaft of an animal, which is why you can be reinfected by a hair in the environment long after the animal has been "cured". Ringworm will fluoresce under a blacklight.

People that contract ringworm often develop a resistance to it and never develop the lesions on subsequent exposures.

yeas, i know that...i just wasn't sure of the incubation period. :laugh:

I definitely did develop lesions on subsequent exposures!!!!! :)

Also, only one type will fluoresce...they need to do skin scrapes & cultures for the other types

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I have lost count of the times I have had ringworm!

Last bout myself and my youngest got it, as did the old dog, but everyone else avoided it. I only have to be in the same room as someone or an animal carrying ringworm and I get it.

So much for becoming immune to it - I still live in hope

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If you have to wash as many dogs as I do in Malaseb then trust me ringworm doesn't stand a chance. I think I am now officially TOXIC.

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I do a lot of rescue work with cats and kittens and ringworm is just part of the course. I first panicked when I got my first case now I just go "oh yes here we go again". The vet misdiagnosed it and then I ended up with a spot. I just used Lamisil once a day spray and it was gone in no time. It is the only time I have caught it in the 2 years I have been doing rescue and my 5 year old has never caught it. Pain in the butt to get rid of but with new drugs and sprays on the market it certainly makes it easier to get rid than it used to. I treat everything coming in as a possible carrier until after a quarantine period and even then it can develop after the supposed incubation period. Personally if you have only come in contact with the animal once I wouldn't be too worried about it. Half the time I am more worried about the drugs and chemicals we use to get rid of the ringworm!

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I had it on my stomach recently. Got a bright idea to put some Trigene on it, but alas, forgot to dilute it. So I ended up with a massive patch of skin that was bright red and felt just like sunburn. But that went away in a couple of days and so did the ringworm :rofl:

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