No, the stress level is the same, unfortunately. The advantage of the Nizoral in combination with oral antifungal treatment is that you can use the rest of the shampoo as a whole body shower gel for yourself in order to help prevent an outbreak in yourself from touching yourself (yeah, THAT same issue!) when handling/treating a ringworm piggy. Typical are the face, neck, arms or bare legs...
Please be aware that you need to also bathe any companions within reach of spores. I had ringworm carried in twice that way.
Here is our updated bathing guide:
Bathing (including cleaning grease glands)