Allergy will no longer be an excuse for avoiding me!
According to science, I and my fellow felines produce a protein, Fel d1 which is an allergen. This induces symptoms of asthma and allergic rhinitus (sniffles) in certain people. This does not stop all of these people from loving us (my human included).
According to a report just released, there may be a new treatment coming soon to treat this allergy.
You can read an abstract of this work from UCLA in the April online edition of Nature Medicine called A chimeric human-cat fusion protein blocks cat-induced allergy.
If that explanation is too scientific, then Medical News Today has published a media release from the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases called Novel therapy tested in mice could chase away cat allergies.
Basically what happens is that when a person is allergic to something (like to us cats, or more specifically, to a protein Fel d1 that we produce), their immune response is to produce histamines which brings on allergy symptoms such as sneezing, wheezing, itching, watery eyes and sometimes asthma.
What these great scientists did was to join up Fel d1 with a human antibody called IgG Fcƒ×1. Together, the new combined protein (called a chimera) prevents the immune system from responding to the allergen. And voila, no more sneezing, wheezing, itching etc.
Once a 'vaccination' is available, even more people can open up their homes, lives and hearts to us cats as their bosses, err I mean companions.
........ooooooooOOOOOOOOoooooooo........
My human stayed home again! What is going on? Seriously, he told me that Easter Monday is a public holiday in many countries except for the United States. We had a good day together, and he gave me a big brush.
Neil and Emily came over for a quick visit in the afternoon. They told me that they are going to live in Manila in the Philippines for a year for work. I will miss them. A whole year is a long time to us cats.
keisercat@wildmail.com
According to a report just released, there may be a new treatment coming soon to treat this allergy.
You can read an abstract of this work from UCLA in the April online edition of Nature Medicine called A chimeric human-cat fusion protein blocks cat-induced allergy.
If that explanation is too scientific, then Medical News Today has published a media release from the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases called Novel therapy tested in mice could chase away cat allergies.
Basically what happens is that when a person is allergic to something (like to us cats, or more specifically, to a protein Fel d1 that we produce), their immune response is to produce histamines which brings on allergy symptoms such as sneezing, wheezing, itching, watery eyes and sometimes asthma.
What these great scientists did was to join up Fel d1 with a human antibody called IgG Fcƒ×1. Together, the new combined protein (called a chimera) prevents the immune system from responding to the allergen. And voila, no more sneezing, wheezing, itching etc.
Once a 'vaccination' is available, even more people can open up their homes, lives and hearts to us cats as their bosses, err I mean companions.
........ooooooooOOOOOOOOoooooooo........
My human stayed home again! What is going on? Seriously, he told me that Easter Monday is a public holiday in many countries except for the United States. We had a good day together, and he gave me a big brush.
Neil and Emily came over for a quick visit in the afternoon. They told me that they are going to live in Manila in the Philippines for a year for work. I will miss them. A whole year is a long time to us cats.
keisercat@wildmail.com
posted by Keiser at 17:28
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