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And the answer for many skin conditions in cats is brushing and then aloe from an aloe plant applied to the skin. Works like a charm. I will be trying the Apple Cider Vinegar for their remaining fleas. Thanks so much for that.
There is a simple and safe solution:
If the acne is only at the blackhead stage all you need is epson salt. 2-3 times a day take a bowl with hot water and a clean cloth. pour a generous 2-3 tablespoons salt on a fresh hot discloth and put this on your cat's chin. let the steam get in the pores and gently massage the espon salts into the chin in circular motion. Obviously make sure the cloth is not so hot as to scald the chin - just a nice hot cloth.
If you are unlucky enough to have reached the stage where your cat has blackheads AND infected pimples follow the procedure above and go to the drugstore and get the lowest volume iodine. once to twice a day pour some of the iodine on your cats chin after you do the epson routine. make sure not to get any in your cat's mouth.
That's it. the acne will be gone.
I know use this procedure for any small small cuts. It is an old remedy for cleaning infections that has been used on humans for a long time.
Cat Chin Acne
Swollen Chin
Swollen Chin
Swollen Chin
Swollen Chin
Make sure you get the organic Apple Cider Vinegar, the one with "the mother" which is the nutrient-rich sediment at the bottom of the bottle. Just shake the bottle before using. Then add a teaspoon to her food and mix it all up.
You can also dilute it 1/2 and 1/2 with spring water, wet a paper towel with the solution, and gently wipe her fur and skin with it. It's fine if she licks it off. The ACV is good for her.
The ACV should ease, and eventually eliminate, her allergies.
Obsessive Licking, Hair Pulling
Cat Chin Acne
FYI: I have another cat that eats the same food and uses the same ceramic dishes and she never has had the acne, go figure.
Cat Chin Acne
Fur Stains
Cat Chin Acne
Cat Chin Acne
I just paid a bundle for my vet. Which his treatments made my cat have convulsions and she died. But with my new kitty I can't do any worse by trying out new home remedies. I also open up a omega3 capsule & mix in her food, she is thriving immensely and way beyond the kitten I found wandering out in a blizzard.
I find that what we share in here some one has already tried it, besides how can we get any worse its mostly natural;it was also found that animals have the same DNA as humans do, so if I can do these remedies why not animals only a smaller dodage. Be sure to say a few prayers. Good luck...
Cat Chin Acne
Skin Issues
Skin Issues
After that make sure you are feeding her foods with out grains. This can be a bit costly, but worth it. My cats are picky and only eat kibble, I like to get a big, 25lb bag and separate it into smaller gallon size bags and freeze them to prevent it from going stale. I get my food from Petco, they have a great program were you can get one bag for free after buying ten within a year.
If you give her baths use only organic soaps, and use only neem oil to prevent fleas. I like to bathe my kitties once every 6 months and I mix 1/8 cup Dr Bronner's liquid soap with a dropper full of neem oil. I then add it to lukewarm water, then dunk the kitties, scrub good and rinse with lots of clean water.
If you bathe to often her skin could be drying out from the sls in most soap. If she is eating food with grain she could be suffering from food allergies, and the same with Organic ACV. It seems to help out the ph in you kitties body and heal some skin issues along with it.
I hope that helps, I know how it feels when you are feeling helpless with your fur babies!
Skin Issues
Skin Issues
Of course you can probably find an extract or tincture of black walnut hulls at a health food store now, and it would probably do the same and wouldn't harm your kitty if it licked it off while bathing.
Next year, if you want to make your own, the rule of thumb for preparing your own herbals is l part herb to l part diluent when using fresh herbs. If using dried herbs, its l part herb to 2 parts diluent. The diluent is usually alcohol or vinegar. If it is to be used internally or might be licked off by a pet, make sure you use the alcohol from the liquor store, not wood or rubbing alcohol.
You will find many good books on how to recognize, gather and prepare herbals and what they are used for, as well as lots of information on line.
Ringworm
Ringworm
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Also, I have read in numerous places that essential oils, even on flea collars, can be lethal to cats. Putting motor oil, which is a carcinogen (as is petroleum jelly), on an animal that cleans itself with its mouth, I would think that could be dangerous. While I still wouldn't put it on a horse, they are different than cats and dogs and will not likely ingest it.
Now onto ringworm:
Both my cat and I are sick - we were both exposed to large doses of a pesticide, in an enclosed area, and now both of our immune systems are having issues. Add to that, we both caught ringworm, from a stray kitten, on a cross country trip. I have found, being that I have a compromised immune system (isn't working at all) that getting rid of ringworm has been difficult as I am having to get to the underlying causes in order to really get rid of it (in chinese medicine - dampness). Ringworm is related to all the things you hear about that start with the word tinea - such as athlete's foot, nail fungus, scalp itch, jock itch (pardon my bluntness). And as any one who has had any of these knows, it's really difficult to treat. So even when you treat the raised sore, you have often not gotten rid of it (I think it is systemic but I might be wrong). So, if you are ready to take it out completely, you will have to address not only the lesions but clothing, bedding, floors, etc. You may not show sores but you may have it (itchy scalp? White soft buildup? Crusty ears? Itching anywhere?).
Cleaning:
So even tho it is caustic, I use bleach if I have to wash floors. And where I can't, I use plain old salt. For my kitty's ears, I took a damp washcloth soaked in a high saline solution (kosher sea salt) and just applied it directly to the ringworm. This kills it within a short period of time (10 minutes should be plenty). It stings while the fungus is alive and stops when it is dead. I have found one application to be sufficient if you treat the other areas. For humans, swimming in the ocean is a way to alleviate it on the skin, scalp, etc. What you have to be careful of is when you put your clothes back on - or your kitty goes and lays down where he usually does - he and you are probably reinfecting yourselves.
When not near the ocean, I like to take kosher sea salt baths - 1.5 lbs in bath water (this is a very heavy concentration but I like it). After I am done with the bath - I throw my clothes in the water and soak them before washing them. Unlike when I swim in the ocean which leaves a residue and dries out my hair, the kosher salt leaves my hair really wonderful. I don't use shampoo on those days and my hair has been stripped of all the impurities that build up (yeast/fungus in your hair makes it slightly gooey).
Supposedly dry cleaning kills it as well.
Now this is a lot of work. I'm pretty sick so its been hard clearing it and you might not be as susceptible, but your cat or dog who is scratching and you don't see anything, or their ears are red and sensitive might be harboring more of the fungus.
I once went to a health food store and the woman behind the counter told me that she had had it a while back and had successfully treated it. I did not have it at the time. I caught it again from her - and it was a particularly virulent strain - it took a lot to cleanse that one out. She had simply suppressed the lesions.
The other thing to do is treat yourself and animal on a nutritional basis. Good food, pure water, etc is a great help. Fungus loves sugar (see candida - it's a fungus as well), so out went all the junk.
I am being treated by a Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner and he is helping me on a constitutional level so I don't self prescribe - I let him do his work. But I do take the baths whenever I know i've come into contact with a fungus (I am sens to it now and know - I sometimes pick it up outdoors or on my own keyboard). My cat gets homeopathic remedies which clear it out of his system. Berberis is a great acute for ringworm. In a pinch (and not in true homeopathic prescribing, ringworm is a remedy as well as well that can be ordered from Helios, and that also knocks it out).
My kitty lets me put the damp cloth on his sensitive ears without much of a fuss and its a good holdover until the remedy kicks in (can take up to 4 weeks or so to be fully cleared and may need to be repeated every 3 months depending on how deep a level it affected the animal). You'll know. He still gets it but it is getting weaker and weaker in him.
I am also going to start him on hydrogen peroxide therapy as well after reading this wonderful site!
Sorry this isn't incredibly simple but it works! I hope this can help someone.
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His bald spots had been consistent with the times I had used clumping kitty litter.
Stay away from clumping litter!
