I haven't had to deal with it with an SO. I rather doubt I'd get seriously involved with someone who absolutely couldn't spend time in my home due to the cat, anyway.
I'm technically allergic to them, but I'm allergic to everything. So I keep things REALLY clean and take antihistamines as needed. As long as the total allergen load doesn't get out of hand, the cat doesn't bother me. She's 13 and I got her as a kitten, so it's obviously been working for a long time now.
I do have one cousin - my favorite, in fact, out of the huge clan - who is deathly allergic to cats. Extremely, horribly, as in I'm afraid to cross-stitch a gift and send it to her because my stitching always ends up with cat hair on it or in it (speciality fibers, okay?). My parents wouldn't let my cats inside when we lived near Lori, or she wouldn't have been able to visit.
But a guy who swears he's deathly allergic has not only come to my house and spent many hours here with nary a sniffle, he sang while here. No effects at all that I could see.
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Date: 2002-07-10 02:50 pm (UTC)I'm technically allergic to them, but I'm allergic to everything. So I keep things REALLY clean and take antihistamines as needed. As long as the total allergen load doesn't get out of hand, the cat doesn't bother me. She's 13 and I got her as a kitten, so it's obviously been working for a long time now.
I do have one cousin - my favorite, in fact, out of the huge clan - who is deathly allergic to cats. Extremely, horribly, as in I'm afraid to cross-stitch a gift and send it to her because my stitching always ends up with cat hair on it or in it (speciality fibers, okay?). My parents wouldn't let my cats inside when we lived near Lori, or she wouldn't have been able to visit.
But a guy who swears he's deathly allergic has not only come to my house and spent many hours here with nary a sniffle, he sang while here. No effects at all that I could see.