cat allergy

Young girl enjoys the company of the family cat

The kind of relationship you want to see between child and animal

The behaviour of the young girl in the video interacting with the family cat should be the parenting objective of all mothers and fathers as it will promote animal welfare going forward and improve the lives of both the cat and the child in the video. Of course, the parenting includes educating the child to …

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Allergens and allergies

Increase in human allergies inc. asthma – reason? – children allergic to cats – spread of cat/dog allergen – environment – lifestyle

A Guardian article online interests me because an allergy to cats affects around 10% of people (is this an underestimate?). The conclusion of the Guardian article is that more and more of us are suffering from allergies. Medicines are struggling to keep up. Theresa MacPhail completed a monumental task of looking at the development of …

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Sheldon

Can you desensitize your immune system to the domestic cat allergen?

Another way of asking this question is: can a person who is allergic to domestic cats reduce his or her sensitivity through exposure to them? The answer would seem to be that for many people it is possible to desensitize themselves to the allergen in domestic cat saliva which causes the allergic reaction, the symptoms …

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Carmen and Emilio

Alec Baldwin’s regrettably false reason for not adopting a rescue cat for his daughter

Alec Baldwin, the well-known actor, and his wife Hilaria Baldwin, have in my considered opinion given a false reason for failing to adopt a rescue cat when gifting a kitten to their daughter. Their daughter is Carmen and she’s seven years old. She has wanted a cat companion since she was 2. The Baldwins had …

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Yvie Jones covered in hives caused by a cat allergy

Yvie Jones says that a cat allergy gave her hives. Is she sure?

NEWS AND VIEWS (COMMENT): Yvie Jones says that she was cat sitting, looking after a kitten whose name is Audrey. Within 24 hours the 47-year-old Australian television personality, was covered in hives. She posted a colourful picture of her hives on her Instagram page…covered in words. She says that she used a filter to make …

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Christiane Panis is so allergic to cats that she usually wears a mask when she combs her cat’s fur.

Vaccinating cats to stop them causing an allergic reaction in people (2022)

This is a Swiss invention; a vaccine given to cats which neutralises the allergens inside cats. It prevents the allergens causing an allergic reaction in people who are allergic to cats. It is called the Hypocat vaccine. They have been working on it since 2013. Martin Bachmann, the chief scientific officer at HypoPet said that …

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