My friend wants a cat, but her allergic son might come for Christmas dinner. Please help for this one visit!?

I am allergic to cats and I can honestly say it is not life threatening, but EXTREMELY uncomfortable. My throat gets dry and itchy, my body gets itchy, I have trouble breathing..and it is not life threatening. I would just put yourself in the boy's shoes.

Well unless she vacuums the entire house as well as getting shot of the cat for the day, the chances are her son is going to be REALLY uncomfortable - even if the allergy isn't life threatening.

So yes, her son will probably put up with it for the sake of his mum - but probably kinder just not to invite him over than make him sit and suffer all day.

I am ok with cats - it is dogs that I have a problem with - and even if the house has been vacuumed thoroughly I come out in a rash within minutes of arriving in a "dog zone".

Not life threatening but damned uncomfortable - and when someone assures me they do not kjeep dogs only to have me then tell them "obviously you DO keep dogs, did you just kick it out for the day" ?

Why do people assume that other people's allergies are "not really that bad". Perhaps they are lucky NOT to be overly reactive. others are NOT so lucky.

As someone else said, your friend might want to choose between having a cat OR making her sons life unpleasant on Christmas day OR simply not inviting him in the first place.

Depending on the cause of his allergy, a SINGLE cat hair could trigger him. ONE. Hopefully he is not that sensitive, but if he is, then asking him around to the house is actually a bit mean.

Mark

I'm HORRIBLY allergic to cats! She will have to take the cat to a close friend or family members house for the day her son will be there, and also the day before, so she can clean from top to bottom (dusting good, vacuum, everything!) and the cat won't be there to dander it all up again. Or she can lock him in her bedroom for the day before and after the visit. If her allergic son visits often, I would suggest not getting one. Everyone in my family has cats and I cannot stay in there house for more than a few minutes before I get so miserable that I have to leave. Even if they clean good.

take the cat over to a Friends house for the day!! easy as that and vacuum really good sofa chairs floors. and dust!! and if the kid has allergies isn't he on some kind of allergie medication?

set up air filters in main rooms of the house where her son might be. make sure he takes a benadryl or some allergy medicine that works for him. vacuum vacuum vacuum! dust too but not with a feather duster. use a swiffer or pledge or something that actually traps the dust instead of knocking it off the desired surface. hope this helps!

My mother was allergic too, tell her to wash her kitty, if she cleans him it will not make a reaction. If a person is (in this kind of allergy) constantly exposed to the allergic "thing" then it will eventually subdue, believe me, my mother was allergic and then she just stopped coughing and sneezing, I've had my cats for 8 years now and she's ok!

I am allergic to animals and I will not visit people who keep their animals indoors. Yeah it is their choice to own an indoor animal but it is my choice not to bother going near their house.

Antihisthamines are expensive, the good ones that work and even then I am extremely uncomfortable, so I think she has to choose between the son and the cat.

Just have him take children's Benadryll hay fever while he is over. I live with three cats and I am allergic to one of them. When it gets to me I just take a pill.

Good Luck

ZebreFoxFire

I suggest them getting a kitty witty and afterwards when the son DOES come get a kitty witty babysitter witter. They'lll have to vaccum and dust and that stuff to get away the odor and fur before he comes.

Put the cat in a kennel overnight.