How Long Do Pet Dander Allergies Last in Humans?
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Pet Allergies Are Never Cured
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Pet dander allergies are never cured. They can be treated in a variety of ways, but there is only one way of escaping pet dander allergies entirely: avoid pets. Within that limit, most allergy symptoms will clear within a period of time after pet dander has been eliminated from your home and life.
How Long For The Symptoms To Leave?
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A single allergic attack will generally clear up within a few hours to a few days. Allergic symptoms developed over time can take months to fully resolve. If damage has occurred to the system (for example if asthma has been developed as a result of the allergy) the condition may be chronic.
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Best Practices
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The best way of dealing with pet dander allergies is to find a new home for the pet or pets. However, many individuals are unwilling or unable to re-home pets. In those instances, a doctor should be consulted regarding the best course of treatment. Some individuals are good choices for desensitization through injections. In this treatment, minute trace amounts of the allergens are injected into the body on a steady basis to force the immune system to learn to ignore the allergens. For many patients, however, the best choice of action will be to use a combination of medications and techniques designed to remove or reduce pet dander in the home.
Non-Allergenic Pets?
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There are really no non-allergenic pets, with the very slight possibility of such creatures as fish and turtles that not only have no fur, but which shed their skin into a tank of water. Beyond that, however, the core problem with pet dander allergies is that a pet must not only have limited hair or fur to shed--it must also have no skin flakes to shed, no saliva to deposit, or any other form of protein to leave around your environment. The allergic response is a reaction on the part of your immune system to a foreign protein. Just as your system tries to get rid of germs, and rejects foreign blood transfusions, your body is having an immune reaction to your pet's natural proteins. The only truly non-allergenic pet would be a pet with no foreign proteins. Pet rocks qualify. Most other pets do not.
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