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Animal hair allergies
What is an "animal hair allergy"?
More and more animals of every kind nowadays spend their life in the closest contact with the people and have become popular cuddling and nonsense animals. So it isn't surprising that has is the frequency of the animal hair allergies within the last decades increased. These particles are spread with the hair and the dust in the air. These allergens are, they which is completely harmless for non-allergic persons, from one on these people breathed in sensitized corresponding Eden allergens and reach the muscous membranes of the eyes, the nose or the bronchial tubes, so cause an allergic reaction according to of allergic cold, asthma or a conjunctivitis. Approximately every third pet-owner develops an animal hair allergy.
The trigger for the allergy, however, often isn't just obvious. Some people suffering from an allergy don't have any animals themselves and react to the cat of acquaintances. Others already react to garments which are made from animal hair or the animal hair adheres allergically. A person affected can even already show an allergic reaction with this if e.g. he stands next to somebody in whose clothes such animal hair or skin shacks are located. This way it happens that e.g. a cat holder transports the cat allergen to its place of work where a colleague sensitized to cathair then develops the typical allergic symptoms. To physical troubles it also can them come with animal hair people suffering from an allergy sensitized appropriately highly on this if they enter a room in which an animal was before allergic react.
Caution also is advised with clothes and items of furniture for an animal hair person suffering from an allergy from animal hair. Because furs, garments, carpets and all other objects which are manufactured from animal hair, also can contain the allergens (e.g. camel hair coats, horse hair mattress, carpets from animal fur or sheepskin for children)
Frequent triggers of animal hair allergies
Allergies are the most frequent against cats and guinea pigs as well as other rodents like rats, mice, rabbit or hamster. Also allergies against birds, horses and cows happen. Dog holders however are less endangered. Leather doesn't seem allergenic.
Cats:
The cat allergen is handed in mainly with the saliva and the tear liquid and this way uses the fine dust in the apartment which triggers allergic reactions. The cat allergen remains the cat by the exceptionally good floating qualities of this fine dust even after remove from the apartment in the air certainly over months. Examinations have shown that the cat allergen is transported also into rooms in which an animal has never stayed. In these cases the allergen was written down to on the rooms by cat holders over the clothes and was provable in the room air at examinations of the dust.
Dogs:
Dog hair sensitizations being able to go race specifically and being limited on one or few breeds of dog. Here you should test in detail, whether there is a sensitization against the dog of its own. The allergens of dog hair show a lower sensitization potential in comparison with the cat allergen, the allergen doesn't remain in the way described before in the room air either.
Birds:
Birds also can trigger allergies. Triggers are both the feathers and the bird excrement here. Chicken mites also can be the cause. In this case there is often a sensitization in addition against house dust mites. The symptoms, mostly direct air need amounts, appear among others after the direct contact with the bird and after cleaning of the cages. Another illness type with a delayed reaction (immune complex formation, type III) is given at the so-called "bird holder lungs". This illness to be more frequently found with pigeon cultivators itself shows shivering fit, nausea, air need approx. 3 to 6 hours after the last bird contact with symptoms like fever, cough. If another outline isn't avoided at this syndrome with these animals, a life-threatening illness condition can adapt.
Which symptoms are there?
- Sneezing attacks with strong watery secretion ion and blocked nose by swelling up the muscous membranes
- Conjunctivitis itching, eyes which are reddened and watering and photosensitivity increased
- Itching of the muscous membranes with scrapers in the throat area
- Asthma amounts (amount like, serious difficulty in breathing with narrowing of the respiratory tract)
- Nettle rash
- Eczemas (not infectious inflammations of the skin): These can make worse at permanent contact with domestic animals and lead to a continuous rash themselves
Diagnosis position
- With the symptoms which the patient describes (case history), i.e. primarily where and when the troubles have appeared for the first time.
- Skin tests
- Antibody proof from a blood test
- Provocation tests: The suspicious substance becomes under a medical supervision into the nose, found on the bronchial or conjunktival muscous membrane.
These informations may be considered a substitute for a piece of medical advice in no case. The content of health-illness.com doesn't can and may be put into any case to make diagnoses or carry out self medical treatment independently.
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