Why Am I Allergic To Animals?

Allergies to animals can be created for a variety of different reasons including inheritence from your parents. In this section you can read about several causes that could have contributed to your animal allergies from perspectives of different health professionals. Perhaps it may ring true to you and it could help you with your animal allergies!

Allergies are produced from a hypersensitive immune system, but how does your immune system get this way in the first place? We discuss possible reasons that may link to your animal allergies:

Nutritional deficiencies: If you are deficient in important vitamins and minerals needed for proper immune function, it could create a dysregulation causing your immune system to go haywire.
Genetic susceptibility: If your parents are prone to allergies and have an allergy to animals, it greatly increases your chance of also being allergic to animals. The same antibodies that are created in your Mum against animal hair can be passed on to you at birth, producing the same allergic reaction in you.
Excessive chemical exposure: Breathing in exhaust fumes, cigarrete smoke, pollution and ingesting chemicals found in your food such as pesticides, food additives and preservatives on a day to day basis, can place a rather large burden on your body. This burden can lead to a susceptibility to allergies as your body gets confused between what chemicals are harmful and what are harmless such as animal dander.
Food sensitivities: If you have food sensitivities, you can often be prone to other allergies including animal allergies.

Lets talk about these reasons in a little bit more depth.

Overburdened Immune System

With an overload of toxins and chemicals in your environment, it can put a great impact on your body’s ability to effectively eliminate these substances. When your body’s detoxification ability is decreased it overburdens your immune system as it frantically tries to decipher the chaos of toxins of what is harmless and should be destroyed and what isn’t. As a result your immune system becomes erratic and confused targeting substances that aren’t harmful like animal hair or saliva.

Food sensitivities can create animal allergies later down the track!

Another cause to animal allergies often begins with food sensitivities. What commonly occurs in infants is atopic dermatitis (eczema) created in response to a food allergen, whether it is to cows milk, or an allergen found in the breast milk. If the food sensitivity is not eliminated and is just suppressed with creams like cortisone, the eczema will disappear and then show up later as asthma. Later on when the child gets older, hay fever and animal allergies begins to occur created by the hypersensitive immune system. If identification and treatment of food allergies are caught early, often these problems can be prevented in adulthood.

When animal allergies are triggered in adulthood, food sensitivities can still be contributing. An allergic reaction in one area of your body such as the digestive system can make the body more reactive in other areas. So reducing the overall allergenic load on your body can decrease at least the severity of symptoms produced in response to the animal allergens.

Now that you know what may be causing your animal allergies, lets take a look at what sort of symptoms you might be experiencing and the best treatment strategy for you.