Allergies

[amyshep]

Please tell me your success stories about overcoming a cat allergy?

DP and I have recently moved back in together and he's allergic to my beloved cat.

I've asked that he give it a few weeks to see if he can increase his tolerance but he's not keen.

He gets tight chested (takes inhaler)
Stuffy and runny nose (uses steroid spray)
Takes antihistamine daily

Any other advice?
I don't want to have to rehome him but if DP can't breathe I'll have to

I have asthma and am very allergic to cats. But I have five cats. I have the right medication and I can now easily live with it. I have a steroid (preventer) inhaler which works well. The first one I tried was not effective, so the GP gave me a different one. If your DP is only using a reliever (e.g. Ventolin) that is a recipe for disaster IME. So a different prescription might help.

In practical terms I have wooden floors, no carpets, and regularly hoover furniture and rugs, and I open the windows to air the house, and brush the cats regularly. I never let the cats on my bed (they are not hard-done-by - they sleep on the spare bed!)

I hope some of that may help your DP.

Upon bringing DCat to my house, I realised that I'd been using the cat-allergic boyfriend to try to fill the gap yawning chasm l felt when I moved out of my DM's house and left DCat behind. So I rehomed the boyfriend.

@MaidOfAle that had seriously crossed my mind but unfortunately I like him too much.

@Marinel thank you. He's a doctor (so the worst patient and not good at taking meds!) but I'll float the idea of the preventer inhaler.
Also saw on another thread that fexofenadine is a good antihistamine so will try that

I have a severe cat allergy to the point I have an epipen and I do actually own a cat. I’m on a daily dose of 180mg fexofenadine and I just don’t pick the cat up and it seems to do the trick. If I do start getting symptoms I have to take an extra antihistamine. (My allergist did say that she can’t tell me to get rid of my cat but she recommends not getting another)