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Allergies and pets.

Almost all pets with a coat are potential sources of allergies. This can also include birds, which tend to peel feathers and throw down fluff, which can also become an allergen.

It's good if you know about allergies to wool and down in advance, but what to do if you have already got a pet, managed to get used to it, but it turned out that you are allergic? After all, allergic reactions can develop gradually, and a person will not immediately discover that the signs of his chronic malaise can be manifestations of allergies. Not all allergies are accompanied by a runny nose and sneezing - there are many manifestations of an allergic reaction, which, unknowingly, cannot even be thought of as an allergy.

What to do with a pet if an allergy has begun to develop on it? As the practice of communication between an allergy sufferer and a pet shows, there is a way to get along with an allergy and a pet.

If no one in the house, according to your observations, in the presence of a pet suffers from bouts of suffocation or persistent coughing fits for a minute, do not rush to get rid of the animal.

There is such a medical term "specific hyposensitization", which means that active vaccination (subcutaneous administration) of a specific allergen in gradually increasing doses leads to the fact that the allergic person becomes, after a certain period of time, resistant to the action of this specific allergen (resistant only to this one allergen).

Translated into everyday language, this means that after some time (for everyone in different ways: from several weeks to a year), in the process of communicating with the acquired pet, the body of a person prone to allergy to wool (down, dandruff) of the animal will develop such antibodies that will not sensitize the body (will not cause an allergic reaction), but only in the case of communication with this particular pet (which you have already brought), and not all the fluffy animals in the world.

Therefore, it is worth trying to survive the first symptoms of allergy, armed with desensitizing agents (antiallergic), and wait, and whether your body is prone to such a specific hyposensitization.

Of course, this experiment should not be carried out in the case of anaphylactic shock, Quincke edema, asthma attacks, signs of atopic dermatitis , as well as tuberculosis, laryngitis and other painful conditions causing severe damage to health. It is not recommended to start specific hyposensitization during pregnancy or in the presence of a newborn baby.

It is worth knowing that if the body of an allergic person has adapted to the allergens of a particular animal or bird, then the next pet will again cause an allergy, but already to its own specific allergens. For each new animal, a new period of specific hyposensitization is needed, that is, a period of adaptation.