Cat Got Your Tongue?

Up to 25% of people who suffer from allergies are allergic to cats, and yet many of these people keep these animals inside their homes as pets. And despite being miserable with sneezing and runny noses, people with cat allergy refuse to give up their beloved pets. So what else is there to do? Besides medications and traditional allergy shots, which have been used to treat cat allergy for years, allergy drops may now offer another treatment for feline-allergic cat lovers.

In a recent study, children with cat allergy were given sublingual immunotherapy, or allergy drops, using cat extract. More than half of the children had a decrease in their allergy symptoms with exposure to cats after a year of treatment. The children did not experience significant side effects from the therapy.

Want to learn more? Find out about:

• Sublingual immunotherapy
• Cat allergy
• Traditional allergy shots