:) Well in that case I'll mention one other thing. As the article Emma linked to mentions, in addition to the skin secretions that cause the allergies, allergens are also present in saliva. That would be one of the reasons why people can tend to be more allergic to cats. A cat that bathes itself a lot will carry a much higher amount of the saliva based allergens on their fur then a dog.
Interestingly, there is one breed of cat, the Siberian I believe it's called, that by a quirk of breeding no longer has the saliva allergen. So if someone with a cat allergy is allergic only to the saliva allergen, or primarily allergic to that allergen, they generally are nearly symptom free around a Siberian.
Ok, that's enough putting my biology class to use. Have a good day/evening/night/whatever!
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Date: 2006-07-05 12:40 am (UTC)Interestingly, there is one breed of cat, the Siberian I believe it's called, that by a quirk of breeding no longer has the saliva allergen. So if someone with a cat allergy is allergic only to the saliva allergen, or primarily allergic to that allergen, they generally are nearly symptom free around a Siberian.
Ok, that's enough putting my biology class to use. Have a good day/evening/night/whatever!