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[quote=Anonymous]1. Do not foster until you have more specific knowledge of what allergies your child has and how allergic your child is. 2. Go to an allergist for skin test and blood work. Cat allergies are much more frequent than allergies to dogs or other species. Yet even with cat allergies, a very small number of cats will not trigger allergies because they produce less Feld1 protein. 3. Does she have asthma, or are symptoms “merely” eyes streaming, itching, sneezing and coughing? You don’t mess around with asthma, because constant triggers will lead to permanent airway damage. There are a few other serious allergy symptoms that you need to avoid at all costs: I’ve had corneal damage in my eyes because of severe allergic reactions. 4. If she’s allergic to cats and you desperately want a cat, there are breeders who specialize in breeding cats with very low levels of Feld1 (they test each cat to make sure). If you have $8K for a very low allergen Siberian cat... [/quote]
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