For the past few months, I've been having terrible allergies (the insides of my nose would close up, making it impossible to breathe through my nose), and I'd get symptoms every night in the middle of the night especially after going near my cat.I had to wear surgical mask whenever I was around him.
My family just employed a helper and she's been vacuuming the house everyday. Now, I can play with my cat and cuddle the way I used to and only notice some slight nasal congestion in the middle of the night! I'm floored at the change the vacuuming and cleaning has brought about. So there are 2 possibilities: 1) It was my dust allergy that was causing all or most of the problems 2) I'm only mildly allergic to my cat if at all and the constant cleaning and vacuuming has resolved most of the problems for me.
Onto the scary news, there was a study done on thousands of people ( http://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(11)01741-6/abstract) that concluded that getting a cat for the first time in adulthood doubles your risk of cat allergies and if you have pre-existing allergies especially dust mites (which I do), from 7% to 13.8%. What do you guys think? Is that a huge percentage? I'm trying to comfort myself by saying that if there's a 13.8% likelihood that cat ownership in adulthood causes allergies, there's an 86.2% chance that it won't...
My family just employed a helper and she's been vacuuming the house everyday. Now, I can play with my cat and cuddle the way I used to and only notice some slight nasal congestion in the middle of the night! I'm floored at the change the vacuuming and cleaning has brought about. So there are 2 possibilities: 1) It was my dust allergy that was causing all or most of the problems 2) I'm only mildly allergic to my cat if at all and the constant cleaning and vacuuming has resolved most of the problems for me.
Onto the scary news, there was a study done on thousands of people ( http://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(11)01741-6/abstract) that concluded that getting a cat for the first time in adulthood doubles your risk of cat allergies and if you have pre-existing allergies especially dust mites (which I do), from 7% to 13.8%. What do you guys think? Is that a huge percentage? I'm trying to comfort myself by saying that if there's a 13.8% likelihood that cat ownership in adulthood causes allergies, there's an 86.2% chance that it won't...
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