The Comparison between Pimpinellaanisumand Grisofulvin in the treatment of Dermatophytosis Caused by MicrosporumCanisin cats

Introduction and Objectives:Dermatophytosis, usually caused by Microsporumcanis, is the most common fungal infection in cats worldwide, and one of the most important infectious skin diseases in this species.Grisofulvin as antifungal tab has side effects such as: nausea and diarrhea so we decided to investigate the therapeutic effects the Pimpinellaanisumas one of the herbal medicinal plants of Tehran and grisofulvin as antifungal agent in the treatment of cats with dermatophytosis. Materials and Methods:10 number of two years oldcats with dermatophytosis in Tehran were randomly selected by wood lamp and randomly divided into 2 groups 5. The first group received twice daily orally every 12 hours, 1 tab of grysofulvin at dosage 10mg/kg as control group and the second group (treatment) was also, every 12 hours 5mg/kg were fed by Pimpinellaanisum autoclaved powder. Results: After a week of prescribing these drugs results were as follows: Pimpinellaanisum recipient group like the group receiving oral antifugal tablets of grisofulvin recovered their health and appetite also returned to normal. At the end of the two groups of dermatophytosis were negative. Conclusion: Because of the many advantages of traditional medicine and herbs and its lower price compared to chemical drugs, it’s better to replace these drugs with recent like chemical drugs. It must be noted that we earlier found the same findings in using this herbal drug on gogs in Tehran province, too.

کلیدواژه ها:

Pimpinellaanisum ، Grisofulvin ، MicrosporumCanis ، Cat