allergic to cat

Actually your boyfriend is probably allergic to the dander rather than the
cat herself. It's interesting that after 2 months your boyfriend suddenly
has become allergic to the dander so if your cat has been outside it is
possible she picked up something else and brought it in with her.

My brother and his wife have about 5 or 6 cats and he has asthema but he
wouldn't think of getting rid of them. One thing is you can bathe the cat
regularly. You didn't state whether the cat was a short hair or a long hair.
Regular brushing on top of bathing of a long haired cat can help reduce the
allergen a bit. Another thing you can do is vacuum carpets regularly (or
have a carpet cleaning done every few months or so). If none of that works I
would have your boyfriend work with an allergy specialist which can help him
become immune to the allergen. As terrible as it sounds if your boyfriend
spends more time around the allergen he can somewhat develop an immunity to
it.

I have allergies but am not allergic to cat dander which is why in your
boyfriend's case it could be something that the cat brought in or got into.
I would ask your boyfriend what other things he could be allergic to.

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"Laila" wrote in message
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my boyfriend had become allergic to Shaina. damn sensitization!
over the past 2 months he has been getting more and more allergic to
her. he is not going into an anaphylactic shock, or anything like
that, but it's pretty bad. is there anything we can do to help him
with that? i have something to wipe her down with, called Simple
Solution that needs to be used weekly. i don't think it's helping.
the only thing that helps him is bennadryl and that knocks him out.
we are not giving her away. any other allergy sufferers here? how
did you deal with that?

-L

It depends on the shampoo you use and the cat. Regularly bathing helps
reduce the dander and of course helps get rid of loose hair. People who show
cats bathe their felines all the time before each show. This is why you see
so many at them that look clean and have finer coats. Part of it is
conditioning and the other is because they bathe them a couple of days
before each show so the coat's natural oils can form again.

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"Laila" wrote in message
thanks. i can bathe her, no problem. she'll bite and scream, but she
doesn't hurt much. doesn't bathing make her skin more dry and make
the dander flake off?

_L

It depends on the shampoo you use and the cat. Regularly bathing helps
reduce the dander and of course helps get rid of loose hair. People who show
cats bathe their felines all the time before each show. This is why you see
so many at them that look clean and have finer coats. Part of it is
conditioning and the other is because they bathe them a couple of days
before each show so the coat's natural oils can form again.

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"Laila" wrote in message
thanks. i can bathe her, no problem. she'll bite and scream, but she
doesn't hurt much. doesn't bathing make her skin more dry and make
the dander flake off?

_L

"Laila" wrote

he LOVES her. he is sad because he can't picker
her up and pet her. he has this way of holding her on her arm that's
really cute. /sigh

-L

Aww, that is sad. I asked because there are people who hate
cats who invent allergies so they don't have to be around them.
Hope you find a solution. I AM allergic to cats, and Benedryl
did not do as good a job as Claritin. the Flonase Phil
suggested sounds good, I might have to look into that for
me!

"Laila" wrote

he LOVES her. he is sad because he can't picker
her up and pet her. he has this way of holding her on her arm that's
really cute. /sigh

-L

Aww, that is sad. I asked because there are people who hate
cats who invent allergies so they don't have to be around them.
Hope you find a solution. I AM allergic to cats, and Benedryl
did not do as good a job as Claritin. the Flonase Phil
suggested sounds good, I might have to look into that for
me!

In article ,
enlightened us with...

Hmm. I made the comment because I was taking Benedryl and my doctor told me
it was vastly inferior to other antihistamines. I found it to be true. I
should have figured it might be different for different people.



Your doctor doesn't make money from Benadryl. *heh*
Coincidence...??? *grins*

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In article ,
enlightened us with...

Hmm. I made the comment because I was taking Benedryl and my doctor told me
it was vastly inferior to other antihistamines. I found it to be true. I
should have figured it might be different for different people.



Your doctor doesn't make money from Benadryl. *heh*
Coincidence...??? *grins*

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"kaeli" wrote in message
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In article ,
enlightened us with...

Hmm. I made the comment because I was taking Benedryl and my doctor told
me
it was vastly inferior to other antihistamines. I found it to be true. I
should have figured it might be different for different people.



Your doctor doesn't make money from Benadryl. *heh*
Coincidence...??? *grins*


Could be. G However, Benedryl puts me right to sleep. When I took it, I
had to take it at bed time. I love Claritin because it is 24-hour and never
makes me drowsy. (It is the perfect allergy drug for me because *all* I feel
is no allergy symptoms. Zyrtec made me feel weird and wired. BTW, my new
asthma inhaler gives me a headache. (Advair.) Bleah.

"kaeli" wrote in message
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In article ,
enlightened us with...

Hmm. I made the comment because I was taking Benedryl and my doctor told
me
it was vastly inferior to other antihistamines. I found it to be true. I
should have figured it might be different for different people.



Your doctor doesn't make money from Benadryl. *heh*
Coincidence...??? *grins*


Could be. G However, Benedryl puts me right to sleep. When I took it, I
had to take it at bed time. I love Claritin because it is 24-hour and never
makes me drowsy. (It is the perfect allergy drug for me because *all* I feel
is no allergy symptoms. Zyrtec made me feel weird and wired. BTW, my new
asthma inhaler gives me a headache. (Advair.) Bleah.

In article ,
enlightened us with...


Could be. G However, Benedryl puts me right to sleep. When I took it, I
had to take it at bed time. I love Claritin because it is 24-hour and never
makes me drowsy. (It is the perfect allergy drug for me because *all* I feel
is no allergy symptoms. Zyrtec made me feel weird and wired. BTW, my new
asthma inhaler gives me a headache. (Advair.) Bleah.

I am one of those hard to medicate people. Even Nyquil doesn't make me overly
drowsy.
Could be the massive amount of diet soda I drink...I think I have more
caffeine in my blood than an entire package of No-Doze.

I require double-doses of any anesthetic to be used. No cold medicine works
well for me except PPA (Phenylpropanolamine), which is on the FDA ****list so
I can't get it any more. I get by with Phenylephrine (OTC: Dristan), but it's
a weaker substitute version, so I have to double-dose it. Most cold medicine
uses Pseudoepinephrine HCL, which does jack for me. I could take 6 of the
damn things and I'd just get a headache along with a stuffy nose and a cough.

Lucky me, I have to know the pharmaceutical names of everything so I don't
waste money buying drugs that do nothing for me (most OTC pills are just the
same thing with a different brand name). I can spell them, but I doubt I
could pronounce them. *LOL*

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