Talk:Allergy to cats

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Crackpot Science

I noticed links refering to "TAT", which tells you to press on your 'third eye' and 'realign your energy field' so that its compatible with the cat. While your spiritual beliefs are welcome on wikipedia, i dont think they belong on this page. If we allow the peddling of newage third-eye click-my-heals on wikipedia pages, wikipedia may as well rename itself to newagepedia. This 'TAT" method that the link describes doesnt only fix cat allergies, no, it fixes everything from the Flu, to depression, to your relationship problems. The last thing we need is people pushing on their third eye and believing they're cured of H1N1 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.196.180.191 (talk) 06:33, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

What does having pets being emotionally healthy have to do with allergies? Sounds like someone that loves their cat but is allergic to it trying to justify continuing to live with the animal. My allergist strongly recommended against this and I believe continued exposure may lead to more severe reactions. If the article is going to contain justification for living with a cat when one has cat allergies, it should definitely contain the cons. I would add it but I don't have the sources. Anyone? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.57.100.154 (talk) 06:21, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Geeze folks. I came here for some information about cat allergies because I was just diagnosed. I found it incredibly annoying to have a "Citation needed" tag after *every* paragraph (and more then one in some). If someone feels that strongly about it why don't they just scrap the entire article and write their own? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.87.176.3 (talk) 20:28, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

LMAO. wow who's the nub that listed all the cat breeds? get a grip. someone nuke that join, plz, if we want cat breeds, we can search for them. useless.

I completely disagree. If accurate, a list of hypoallergenic cat breeds is very pertinent and appropriate to the scope of this article. I would however, like to see a little bit of responsible citation for such information, rather than having them presented as unsubstantiated "some claim that"s. 71.34.100.229 00:47, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Rewrite needed

Rampant use of "you"'s and reads like a pamphlet. Article needs to be rewritten in impersonal and technical tone to be encyclopedic. Thanks. --Kvasir 06:49, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Error of fact in first paragraph: While Fel d I is the major culprit in cat allergies, it is not the only one. See the PubMed abstract of the March 2007 article "Cat IgA, representative of new carbohydrate cross-reactive allergens" for the following statement:

"BACKGROUND: Allergens from cat are among the most potent elicitors of allergic disease. Four cat allergens have been identified; however, evidence indicates the existence of additional allergens."

Not being knowledgeable re allergies and immune biology, I'm unsure but suspect this article goes on to announce the discovery of a fifth cat allergen.

This abstract may be accessed at - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=17336613&ordinalpos=3&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

Citation: The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 2007 Mar;119(3):640-5.

Aletajk 03:11, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

The two references for the study against cat colour and allergens no longer exist. I don't want to remove the citation, but the links are gone. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.224.158.244 (talk) 22:03, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 16:24, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

"Coping with allergies" section needs rewrite

That's pretty much it. It's just poorly written. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Osiriscorleone (talk • contribs) 04:06, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

Studies on Hypoallergenic Cats?

The Hypoallergenic cats section refers to antigen research, and a small study. I have been unsuccessful in finding sources for these two claims. They should either be properly cited or removed. I'm allergic to cats, and it would be nice to know that there is underlying research or studies to back the assertions made. At this point, I'm not sure what to believe. In any event, marked both offending sentences as citation needed. Paulh1221 (talk) 15:04, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

I removed the following citation: "Hypoallergenic Cats - Do They Exist? http://www.cat-world.com.au/hypoallergenic-cats-do-they-exist" It was used to support the claim that "several studies showed statistically significant results". There's nothing on the cited webpage that really supports that. 69.165.211.244 (talk)

Medications section

I'm not sure what to do with this line: "Generally, hay fever medication or over-the-counter antihistamines have negative effects on cat allergy." I don't understand what this is supposed to convey, and I haven't had any luck finding a citation to clarify it. It would sure be nice if an allergist came around and fixed this up! Wishful thinking, perhaps. I'll try to take a look around tonight, and see if I can come up with something. Paulh1221 (talk) 23:13, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Hyper-allergenic cats

We need info on which breeds are more apt to trigger allergic reactions (not just all this breeder promotionalism of alleged "hypo-allergenic cats"). I know from direct experience that Siamese and related breeds tend to produce more of the enzyme and thus a stronger allergic reaction, but I don't know if there are any reliable journal studies, etc., about this.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  22:07, 30 December 2018 (UTC)

Someone has put into the article claims (with one source I think) that Siamese and related breeds like Balinese and Himalayan are less allergy-inducing, but I know from regular direct experience that is not the case. We need way better sourcing on what breeds are and are not "hypoallergenic", and in relation to precisely which enzyme. It's possible those mentioned breeds are low in one and high in the other and I'm more allergic to the other. But I have a very strong reaction (like almost all the listed symptoms in this article at once) to Siamese and related breeds, while you can rub some other kind of cat all over my face and nothing happens at all.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  00:11, 30 August 2023 (UTC)

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Contradictions within article

There are several contradictory sections in the article: most notably, the introductory paragraph says the second most common allergy is to the protein Fel d 2, but the section on allergens says Fel d 4 is the second most common allergy culprit.

The cites for Fel d 2 in the intro are to a Mayo Clinic page that is very basic and doesn’t mention specific proteins/allergens; and another page which currently doesn’t load.

Thus far the links for Fel d 4 seem more substantive, but are assessing Fel d 4 by itself and haven’t given a comparative incidence of the allergy. Anyone have a cite? LaPrecieuse (talk) 23:14, 17 November 2024 (UTC)