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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[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

It do be like that sometimes, since you do actually have allergic to cat. Sometimes my allergic reaction is so severe i couldn't breath through my nose and have to rely on antihistamine, other times i can hug them all day and it barely itch. One thing that helped me is to clean the room often, and vacuum the floor helps a lot, since the allergen do linger in the air and vacuuming trap it inside the vacuum. I got a robot vacuum exactly for this reason, so i can sit back and rest while the robot do the vacuuming for me.

Change your sheet and wash your duvet/blanket more often could also help, since you're letting him in your room and that increase the amount of time you're exposed to allergen.

But the best thing for both of you is to not allow him in your room to decrease the exposure time.

I heard it has something to do with your body immune system, so being healthy also helps with it.

Also if you have access to 5 big piece of hepa filter and a box fan, you can make a Corsi-Rosenthal Box, a DIY air purifier that works significantly better and cheaper than the one in the market, and this thing is invented to reduce indoor infection risk of covid19.