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Having cats or dogs in your home is fun and even can help you to reduce your stress. They can be best friends for anyone, but if you have asthma or allergies then they also will be the worst enemy of your body. And in this article, let’s focus to explore some ideas to reduce and eliminate pet allergens! You may also like to read top diseases that attack men!
Dander of pets is the big problem (especially in cat and dog, but not for cold-blooded animals like turtle and snakes)! It is a combination between feathers or hair and dead skin cells, which can be a frequent factor to trigger allergic reactions or asthma attacks, especially for individual who suffer from allergy.
Therefore, there are a lot of advices that recommend for individuals with asthma or allergies to avoid having pets in their home (particularly cats). Below are some helpful tips and ideas to reduce pet allergens!
Keep clean the filter of your HVAC system
It is so important to always keep clean the air at your home! If you have HVAC (Heating, ventilation and Air Conditioning), then make sure that machine get the proper maintenance regularly, particularly for the HVAC air filter! Moreover, the maintenance is also helpful to keep well the efficiency performance of your HVAC system (low energy bills for each month).
Keep well the cleanliness of your home!
Don’t miss to consider any dusts in your home. They can be a nice object to keep well dander. So make sure you keep well the cleanliness of your home. There are some allergens from the lower levels of a rug that cannot be removed completely. Therefore, you may need to use vacuum-cleaner that equipped with better filter (like HEPA filter, HEPA stands for high-efficiency particulate air). And for better result, you can do to vacuum or dust when the person with asthma or allergies goes outside from home or is not at home.
Restrict the movement of pets
Keep far away your pets from carpet! Don’t also forget to restrict them to keep far away from any objects that can catch dander easily, like beds, blankets, pillows, cushions, and upholstered furniture. Use allergen-resistant bedding if necessary.
If there are some materials or furniture or fabrics that usually your dog or cat does come into contact then make sure all of those objects are washed or vacuumed regularly.
Eliminate contact with pets
As much as possible try to keep your dog or cat outdoors! This is so familiar idea and effective enough to reduce dander in the inside of your home. If you cannot do that, at the very least you have to make sure that pets will not able to go to a certain bedroom where an individual with asthma or allergies sleep.
Kids with asthma or allergies should be learned and given advice about how to avoid touching animals. Make sure your children completely understand about how importance of the cleanliness, particularly they have to clean their hands before and after eating! And learn to them how to clean their hands properly, if they do come into contact with your pets!
Keeping your pet in the room with the floor that is constructed with wood, will also be helpful enough to reduce and eliminate pet allergen, because dander on the wood floor is relatively easier to remove than dander on the carpet.
Keep well the cleanliness of pets and their cages!
You have worked hardly to keep well the cleanliness of your home but if you ignore the cleanliness of your pet then all of your effort will be useless. Frequently bathing your dog and cat will be helpful to reduce allergens in their dander - according a research in the Journal of Allergy & Chemical Immunology in 1999.
And don’t miss to always keep clean their cages! The cage is usually needed for birds, guinea pigs, hamsters, and even sometimes for dog or cat. Moreover, the clean cage is also needed to promote good health for your pet.
