HOW TO DEAL WITH ALLERGY TO PETS AND OTHER ANIMALS: IF YOU ARE NOT HIGHLY ALLERGIC
How you deal with allergy to pets and animals will depend on how important they are to your life.
If You Are Not Highly Allergic
If you are not highly allergic to an animal or pet, it may be sufficient to take the following avoidance measures in your home. Make sure that the animal sleeps outside the house. Confine it, if you can, to certain areas of the home and above all keep it out of bedrooms, both during the day and at night. Groom or brush animals outside the house, or get someone else to groom them for you. Discourage animals from licking you, and particularly from licking young children and babies.
Use washable bedding for animals. Wash frequently, and beat or hose down outside the house. Vacuum or wash as frequently as you can any furniture or flooring on which the animal commonly sits. Use a washable hearth rug, and other washable flooring where possible.
Keep small mammals outside the house. Get someone else to clean out cages and litter trays if you are sensitive to these.
If you are sensitive to animals at work, using hand protection if you have contact allergies can help, as can limiting your close contact as far as you possibly can. Gardeners using horse manure can react to it if they are allergic to horses, so they should use a different kind of manure or compost. Zookeepers allergic to horses have been known to cross-react to related species – donkeys, mules and zebras – and have to avoid caring for these.
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