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Originally Posted by Jim Kata
I was allergic to cats. My sister got one...and I was fine after about 2 months. It slept with me and everything. We ended up getting 2 more cats at the house over the next 7 years.
Finally I moved out and got two more cats of my own after a few months. Guess what? I'm allergic to them. And I'm allergic to the cats at my parents place again. Its very weird.
Anyhoo, I don't let them in my room, and use one of those ionic breezes as well as some clarinex. I still wheeze now and then, but not that bad. No way I'm giving my two crazy cats away though.
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Allergies are very weird. Sometimes you're not allergic to something when you're first exposed to it, but later you develop the allergy. Sometimes you're allergic at first, but then you get used to it. This has been the case with cats in my experience.
My sister had cats in the house when I was a teenager, and I didn't have any reaction to them. In my 20's, I spent a lot of time over at one person's house, and she had a longhaired cat. One day I let it rub up against my neck, and I broke out itchy bumps from my chin down to my collarbone. For a few months my skin would react whenever it had contact with that cat. Then.... the reactions stopped. And I've never had an allergic reaction since to that cat or any other.
My sister the cat lady, on the other hand, developed an allergy to cats about 10 years back after having cats for 20 years.