Are these actually symptoms of a cat allergy or just a coincidence?
Hello everybody! I'm a cat lover and I've been waiting to get one since I was very young. Fortunately, my parents agreed to get me one last week!!! But then, the big 'problem' came.
One day, when I was going to my piano teacher's house for a lesson, my face started to itch right after I had a good snuggle with one of her beautiful Siamese cats. At first, I passed it off as just an itch but as the weeks went by, I started to notice that something was wrong. The itching wasn't painful but it was extremely irritating. One time, I even found that I had a red bump on my face!
We immediately guessed that I was allergic and my heart fell to pieces.
However, I did some research on my symptoms and came back quite puzzled. According to my research, cat allergy symptoms include sneezing, wheezing, runny eyes and nose and bad rashes/hives.
My symptoms that I noticed I had over the past few weeks were:
-An itchy face, but no pain
-A few red spots, but nothing too severe
-Slightly itchy eyes, but not watery eyes
-This week, I wheezed and coughed a little bit (I have asthma)
Finally, yes, I'm supposed to get an allergy test soon too. If anybody who had experiences with allergy tests and cat allergies give me some tips on how the test will work and how to deal with allergies, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much!!
Hello everybody! I'm a cat lover and I've been waiting to get one since I was very young. Fortunately, my parents agreed to get me one last week!!! But then, the big 'problem' came.
One day, when I was going to my piano teacher's house for a lesson, my face started to itch right after I had a good snuggle with one of her beautiful Siamese cats. At first, I passed it off as just an itch but as the weeks went by, I started to notice that something was wrong. The itching wasn't painful but it was extremely irritating. One time, I even found that I had a red bump on my face!
We immediately guessed that I was allergic and my heart fell to pieces.
However, I did some research on my symptoms and came back quite puzzled. According to my research, cat allergy symptoms include sneezing, wheezing, runny eyes and nose and bad rashes/hives.
My symptoms that I noticed I had over the past few weeks were:
-An itchy face, but no pain
-A few red spots, but nothing too severe
-Slightly itchy eyes, but not watery eyes
-This week, I wheezed and coughed a little bit (I have asthma)
Finally, yes, I'm supposed to get an allergy test soon too. If anybody who had experiences with allergy tests and cat allergies give me some tips on how the test will work and how to deal with allergies, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much!!