Animal Allergy Tips
Central Jersey's Home News Tribune offers the following tips for managing animal allergies:
- Keep your pet confined to one room of the house – not the bedroom! – and use a HEPA air purifier to limit the number of allergens.
- Allergic individuals should not pet, hug, or kiss their pets because the animal's fur and saliva contains allergens.
- The pet should be kept out of the bedroom of the allergic individual.
- Litter boxes should be placed in an area unconnected to the air supply for the rest of the home and should be avoided by the allergic individual.
- Some allergic people may have severe reactions such as wheezing and shortness of breath after exposure to certain pets. Also, long-term exposure to birds and their droppings can result in a chronic, slowly progressive feeling of shortness of breath, loss of energy, and feeling fatigue; this type of disease is known as hypersensitivity pneumonitis and can result in severe disability. In these extreme situations, the only choice is to get rid of the animal.
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