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Article: Kids with allergies can have pets, too
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 19, 1990
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Recently, I was showing a youngster some photos of bears that a
friend of mine had taken. The boy was fascinated and lingered over
each picture. But within a short time, he began to sneeze, and his
eyes reddened and watered.
"Have your cats been anywhere near these pictures?" his mother
asked.
I thought for a moment. My cats had not walked or sat on the
photos, but the cats sometimes lie on the desk where I had spread out
the pictures. The child was reacting third-hand to an allergen.
Allergies to animals usually are caused by dander, the normal
dead cells that are sloughed of the skin's surface, or by saliva or
urine. Some people are allergic to fungal sores on bird feathers,
though ...
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