How do you build immunity to dog allergies?
Dangelo Miller
2025-07-29 12:41:56
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You may hear claims about breeds of dogs and cats that are non-allergenic or cats and dogs who are hypoallergenic. However, even hairless breeds may cause a severe allergic reaction. If your or a family member's allergies are simply miserable, but not life-threatening, take these five steps to reduce the symptoms:
1. Create an "allergy free" zone in your home—preferably the allergic person's bedroom—and strictly prohibit the pet's access to it.
2. Use HEPA air cleaners throughout the rest of the home, and avoid dust-and-dander-catching furnishings such as cloth curtains and blinds and carpeted floors.
3. Bathe your pet weekly to reduce the level of allergy-causing dander.
A combination of approaches—medical control of symptoms, good housecleaning methods and immunotherapy—is most likely to succeed in allowing an allergic person to live with pets.
Additional treatments for allergies to pets include immunotherapy, steroidal and antihistamine nose sprays, and antihistamine pills.
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