Hi. I've had my cat since August. He sleeps in my bed every night and has done so since I've got him. I've always had an incredibly mild allergy to cats...mostly when they scratch me I sometimes get very itchy (but not always), or if there are a metric buttload of them in the room (as in a shelter), my throat and eyes will be a bit scratchy. Otherwise I'm fine.

In the past several weeks, I have been sneezing a fuckton and when go to bed and wake up in the morning my nose is entirely stuffed up and runny. It goes away once I'm up and moving, but I'm still periodically sneezing whenever I'm at home. The litter boxes are NOT in my bedroom.

Any tips??? I don't want to kick him out of the bed. :(((

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[–] celeste@kbin.earth 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

There are apparently cat foods that reduce the production of what humans are allergic to, but I struggled a bit to find an article about it that didn't read like a paid advertisement. I guess here:

https://www.aaoallergy.org/hypoallergenic-pet-food-myth-or-magic-solution/ This looks real? Would love info from someone who knows more on this.

[–] greatwhitebuffalo41@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

According the an allergy doctor I follow on several social media places, this is legit. It also comes in a powder you can sprinkle on any cat food. The protein is found in chicken eggs where the chickens have actually been exposed to cats food most of their lives. It won't work for everyone but from what I can tell the science shows it'll at least improve things!

[–] celeste@kbin.earth 1 points 2 days ago

Oh, neat! My cat gets special food cause of her own allergies, so a powder would be way nicer if one of the humans here developed an allergy.

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Anecdotally, but one of my cat-allergic kids spent the entire day at a friend's house with their cat who was purportedly fed this kind of food. Now, my kid pre-dosed an antihistamine early in the day, and their friend vacuumed before, but this was allll day in a studio apartment, and they didn't have a single symptom at all. Based on prior experience, that's unusual.

[–] celeste@kbin.earth 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You know, an anecdote still seems like more legit data than some of the articles I saw. Unless... you're also sponsored???? (joking) There does seem to be a lot of potential in targeting the allergin cats make, so I'm genuinely hopeful about these kinds of treatments.

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 2 points 2 days ago

Ha, no, just something that happened recently that lined up with the current topic. Like I said, just an anecdote, there wasn't any science involved, just something I took note of.