| polish_aristocrat |
02-11-2004 09:27 AM |
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Originally posted by Stallion
I am alergic to pet dander. We got two cats and I sneezed for a few days and had watery eyes whenever I was real close to them. Otherwise it didn't bother me, but this went away after a few days as I got use to them and haven't had any problems with them ever since. Also I hear that Claritin really helps if you are alergic to animals.
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Originally posted by fedfest
I think most cat alergies only concerne certain types of cats, so that you can be alergic to shorthairs but have no problem with longhaired or semi-longhaired.
As far as i know from friends with allergies the semilong haired cats (main coons and norvegian forest cats) don't seem to bother them or break out their allergies.. Think it has something to do with the oil the have in their fur vs. other cats having more "dry" furs with their hairs flying around more in the air.. that's only my personal thoughts though
I had one friend with really bad allergi that got all red an swollen in the head, nose and eyes running and everything if he was just in a room with a cat, but with my coons he "just" had a little bit of running nose once in awhile even though the cats was all over him.. I had a Turkish Van cat too at that time, and they sometimes slept together, the cat lying right under his nose, with no problems at all.. So i'd say that often it's very connected to the breed, and not cats in general
Best advice i can give if you really wan't a cat, is go see some good breeders of different breeds.. spent some hours there with the cats and see how you react.
Just my :2 cents: on this
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Originally posted by Shok
Certain breeds don't put off dander.
Russian Blue's, Egyptian Mau's and of course Turd, he's a Sphynx
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Thans guys :)
I will have to look into it.
When I was a child we had a cat, but then we had done some tests and it came out I am allergic against cats.
So the cat went away.
Then I had done some new tests and it came out that I am allergic against almost everything what's in the air ( except water ).
So now I simply don't have any animals, try to clean often my room and in the holiday season I take Claritine ( or something similar ) and some eye and nose drops.
I never had very strong reactions against f.e cats, just overall allergies.
I wanted to do some allergy treatment to get rid of the allergy, but my parents told me that I shoulnd't do it, since that often doesn't help or makes it even worse.
Since a few years i don't have to ask my parents ;-) but I haven't really taken care of it - I was always too busy to spend time going to different doctors so I've been simply taking the meds in holiday season and avoiding dust and animals in generall.
But since I am living alone now, I'd really need some pussy
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