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Ok so I ave always known I am alergic to cats, dogs, hoses any thing with hair.
My parents have always had a dog and a cat for as long as I can remember. normally I just take an adjustment period to get myself adjusted to the cat so that I build up a kind of resistance and then I have no problems.
My symptoms are sneezing, itchy eyes and my arms/hands come up in itchy bumps
We have had Mellow a week and the sneezing has almost stopped and so has the itchy eyes, but I still keep getting these raised bumbs (i think they are called hives very itchy!) these have slowly been getting further and furter up my arm after each time I get them, they used to just be on my wrists and now they are on my forarms.
Mellow is very afectionate and likes to rub on me, I always wash my hands after petting him and that helps, the wierd thing is when he rubs my leggs I dont get the rash there, it is just on my arms.
I had been washing my hands with dish soap (because the kitchen is the easiest place to wash hands) and i was wondering if thats been drying out my arms making me more susceptable to the rash
I have read the page about allergies, but I was wondering what you guys do to relive symptoms. we vacuum and i hae got this allergy rub thing that you put on them, its natural and non toxic, you rub it on them then dry it off (Mellow enjoys this) but I dont know if it is really making a difference.
Any sugestions would be aprieciated!
My parents have always had a dog and a cat for as long as I can remember. normally I just take an adjustment period to get myself adjusted to the cat so that I build up a kind of resistance and then I have no problems.
My symptoms are sneezing, itchy eyes and my arms/hands come up in itchy bumps
We have had Mellow a week and the sneezing has almost stopped and so has the itchy eyes, but I still keep getting these raised bumbs (i think they are called hives very itchy!) these have slowly been getting further and furter up my arm after each time I get them, they used to just be on my wrists and now they are on my forarms.
Mellow is very afectionate and likes to rub on me, I always wash my hands after petting him and that helps, the wierd thing is when he rubs my leggs I dont get the rash there, it is just on my arms.
I had been washing my hands with dish soap (because the kitchen is the easiest place to wash hands) and i was wondering if thats been drying out my arms making me more susceptable to the rash
I have read the page about allergies, but I was wondering what you guys do to relive symptoms. we vacuum and i hae got this allergy rub thing that you put on them, its natural and non toxic, you rub it on them then dry it off (Mellow enjoys this) but I dont know if it is really making a difference.
Any sugestions would be aprieciated!