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People, who have been ailing from allergy even if it is not cat allergy, feel worse near a cat. Scientists have found out, that people with different types of allergy (grass, mould, dust), who have cats in the house, are more inclined to bronchospasm, than those who have no cats. Results of the laboratory researches have confirmed that research participants did not suffer from cat’s wool allergy.
If the given researches will be confirmed, doctors will be able to advise all people with allergy to avoid contacts with cats. However now the result of research cannot be called final and indisputable.
Susan Chinn and her colleagues from the London Imperial College examine 1884 adult Europeans from different countries. In houses of the research participants scientists measured concentration of dust ticks and cat’s allergens. Participant of the research were taken blood tests to determine an allergy to cat’s epidermis, to the dust tick, grass and mould. With the help of test with methacholine scientists checked bronchial tubes reactivity.
All allergic individuals, irrespective of allergy type, have higher susceptibility to bronchospasm with a cat in the house. Concerning other allergens, dust ticks, for example, such pattern was not revealed.