Liz Buchanan BVSc MRCVS
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Hello! I'm sorry to hear about your little one - that's quite a problem list for a small cat. So we've got multiple incidences of ringworm, treated and returns. Diarrhoea - Coccidia +ve but now -ve and still diarrhoea. Shakes when hungry.
Ringworm is easy to treat but it is advisable have the full course of treatment. However, if that's happening and it still recurs, I wonder why. Perhaps his immune system isn't completely doing its job - and this may be just because he's a youngster. However, your cat is a young adult now, so he's borderline old for this explanation. Ringworm can still occur in fully adult cats, but is most often secondary to some underlying disease or niggling low immunity, which may fit with the existence of other symptoms. You also describe something that sounds a little bit like hypoglycaemia (i.e. running out of sugar in his blood) when he's hungry. Therefore I think your vet is very wise to have tried taking a blood sample. It was also very wise to stop when he got stressed. I wonder what can be done to make the blood sampling process easier for next time? Certainly, we would urge you not to give up. Sometimes it's easier to book in for a blood test if they can go in for the whole day and get used to the Hospital environment before the bloods are taken; sometimes vets will ask to use a sedative to make the experience less stressful. These are certainly ideas to run by them. Best of luck - and in any case, please let us know how he gets on.
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