Noooooooooo!!!!
For five months, I've been plagued with unbearably itchy eyes. I went to the doctor as soon as they started itching because I was worried that I had pink eye (or, worse, one of those scary fungal infections that they say you can get from contact solution). He assured me that my eyes were fine and I just needed some eye drops, but those didn't help at all.
So, since my eyes were still driving me CRAZY, I finally decided to go back (all these months later) and demand an allergy test. His office just called me with the results. Apparently I had a high reaction to only one thing: cats!
But there's no way I'm giving up Pepper. For this face, I'll gladly become a slave to allergy meds:
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maybe there's something you can do to cut down on the reactions - like frequent cat shampoos or vacuuming?
Interesting! Since my symptoms are comparitively mild (I have read about people's eyes swelling shut, and that makes my itchy eyes seem like nothing!), I think I'm going to start with the easy stuff (vacuuming, changing the furnace/air-conditioning filter more often, washing her beds and our blankets more often; using my nose spray) and if that doesn't work I'll move on to the more hard-core stuff (like weekly injections!).
Oh, and thanks to your comment, I found this article on Wikipedia ... it was quite informative.
Oh, no! I hope you can figure something out that keeps the symptoms to a minimum.
Being allergic to cats is all about the junk in their saliva that they spread all over their fur when they clean themselves. Some sort of protein. I guess it's possible to be allergic to one cat more than another too.
Instead of dunking pepper in a bath ( I have been saying that I need to give my beast a bath for over a year now - ha! No way...she acts like I am killing her! ) perhaps some of those pet cleaning cloths might do the trick. They are like baby wipes for kittehs.