Kitten - urgent advice needed
Dear All,
We brought home a stray kitten at the age of 2 weeks. Everything had been all right with him until the time he got about 4 months old. We were about to take him to the vet for the initial vacination when suddenly he started losing hair on his head. There appeared some small verruca like skin formations that he tore together with the hair and soon he was all in open wounds. The vet said it was some sort of parasitic fungi and treated it with Frontline. Unfortunately the medicine failed to help and then we had samples from his hair taken for testing - the hairs and their bulbs proved to be absolutely all right. A lot of tests followed but the only diagnosis we got was stafilococus piodermit (not sure about the correct spelling) and it was soon dismissed by other vets we took the kitten to. Meanwhile he was treated with antibiotics: cephalexin, sulorex, tanzim but there was no constant improvement because the wounds would open again any time we stopped the antibiotic drug. All the vets we have been to so far could not give a definite diagnosis and just shrugged shoulders, some of them even suggested that the kitten should be euthanised.
The kitten is 10 months old now and is very happy, joyful and playful; he doesn't show any symptoms of being ill - eats, drinks water, does the nature calls :) regularly. The only strange thing is that he seems to be lacking any sense of pain - while we clean his wounds with a propolis solution, which includes spirit and should be an unpleasant experience, he is sitting quietly and tries to play with us.
Any suggestions that can help cure the kitten ?