Pets and health

Many urban women are like to raise cats and dogs in the home. And also there are many people take pets as family members. Whether they go to eat or sleep, they are willing to carry out intimate contact with pets. But they are very worried about family members to get sick pets, especially the elderly and children.

Mao Shuhe who is well-known expert of skin diseases suggest that it need wash hands with soap at least three times after touching pets. Do not stay with pet in the same room. Do not eat and sleep with pet. As there are a lot of fungi in fur of cats and dogs, need to wash hands after contact with pets. If do not carefully wash hands, could easily suffer from pet diseases such as skin ringworm, hand ringworm and tinea cruris and so on.

Ringworm disease initially appears circular erythema which is clear boundary, accompanied by itching, but also the small papules or small blisters. If it is severely, skin keratinization will emerge. If the ringworm disease could be treated, it will recover. However, because of inadequate attention for some patients early, ringworm dragged into chronic disease, followed the treatment more difficult. Therefore, housewives should observe the pet at any time to see whether there is fungal infection. Once fur of a pet is found to drop off, it should guard against fungal infections. At this time, the first thing is that isolate elderly and children with pets. It should take the pet with medical treatment.