Invisible pet dander, terrible pet allergy... You should know about your furry frenemies

Publisher: Release time: 2023-12-28

Don’t turn your furry friends into furry enemies. Obtain the knowledge to treat and prevent pet allergies, and enjoy the love and companionship of your pets.

Cats and dogs are important members of the family, giving owners a lot of love and companionship. They like to pace at home and use every piece of furniture like beds and couches just like you do. Despite you adore them and cannot imagine life without them, you're still battling the ubiquitous presence of pet fur and the invisible dander and allergens it carries. So cute but so annoying! This article will let you learn about what pet dander and pet allergies are, more importantly, how to treat and prevent them.

What is pet dander?

Often hidden in fallen pet hair, pet dander1 is invisible and derives from skin cells shed by furry pets, common in cats and dogs, due to a normal growth cycle. In other words, skin flakes.

Where can find pet dander?

The main foothold of pet dander is pet hair lingers as mentioned before, but it is also easy to stick to fabrics like couches and cushions because pet dander is microscopic level in size and jagged in shape. If your pets love sleeping with you, then bed sheets and pillowcases will also be a perfect destination for their hair and dander. In addition, your clothing can easily stick to pet hair and dander after playing with your pet, and carry them everywhere and randomly fall off your furniture.

How it can affect human health?

Who knows your furry friends would be your enemies one day? According to academics and scholars who research allergy and health, pet hair and its dander can be a trigger for pet allergy, making it easier to cause allergic reactions than other allergens. Sufferers may have symptoms2 as follows,

√ Sneezing
√ Itchy or watery eyes
√ Runny or stuffy nose
√ Skin rash
√ Signs of asthma like shortness of breath, or wheezing
√ ...

You already know that pet owners can be allergic to pet dander, but can this also affect their pet's health? Surprisingly, the answer is YES. Taking a family who owns a cat and a dog as an example, the dog can actually be allergic to the cat, and it will have similar allergic reactions as human’s³.

How to treat and prevent pet allergy

It seems that people and pets, and pets and pets cannot happily coexist. Don't be so pessimistic! Keep reading to learn more about treatments and prevention.

※ Brush your pet hair

The benefits of brushing your pet’s hair are self-evident to most pet owners, not only maintain the health of pet fur but also improve the bond between you and your pets. In more detail, regularly brushing your pets can help to remove their dead hair and skin flakes to minimize the shedding, and stimulate the blood circulation of pets. By the way, you’d better do this in a closed-off area and collect hair lingers in a pack to avoid flying fur.

Moreover, your consistent grooming can be a kind of positive interaction from your pets’ perspective, making them comfortable and come to deeply trust you.

※Stay vacuuming and cleaning

The principle of allergy reduction is to lower your exposure to pet allergens. So regular vacuuming including bed, clothing, furniture and floors is necessary.

To be honest, the ordinary vacuum cleaner performs poorly in cleaning fabrics that are deeply covered with pet hair and its dander. Fortunately, JIMMY BX7, a double brushroll anti-mite vacuum cleaner gives us a surprise with its capability to deeply clean pet hair, pet dander, and its allergens on the surface or embedded in fabrics at the same time. This is mainly because the machine features a combination of two functional brush rolls - one is an anti-tangling brushroll, and another is a soft rubber strip and hair strip composite brushroll. Driven by a 600w high-efficiency motor, JIMMY BX7 effectively removes pet hair and gets rid of pet dander and its allergens hidden in fabrics like couches, cushions, bedsheets, mattresses and clothing through strong & fast tapping and powerful suction, protecting you away from allergies.

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Apart from this, it is equipped with UV light & Ultrasound function, which can kill bacteria and allergens in a very safe way, with rate 99.99% (certified by UK Allergy Foundation), promising you further protection. This is a godsend to stay home clean that families with pets cannot refuse.

※ Bathe your furry pet

Bathing can keep your pet free of dirt and plays an important role in the health of your pet’s skin and coat. Remember to use pet shampoo and lukewarm water, making pet bathing in a very gentle way.

However, you need to pay attention to pets who don’t like being bathed at all for some reasons, especially cats. Their tongues feature hundreds of tiny white spines, giving them a brush-like ability. So they prefer to do cleaning by grooming themselves instead of being bathed.

※ Medication therapy

If your allergic reactions still are not controlled, then talk to your doctor for medication therapy, but side effects should be taken into consideration. Doing an allergy test in advance is the best way to check what exactly happened and decide what course of measures you should take.

Conclusion

Owning a pet is a privilege that brings us happiness, love and companionship, and also teaches us how to take on responsibility. Sometimes, their furry appearance looks cuteness overloaded, but it may trigger allergic reactions through pet hair and its invisible dander. If you or your loved ones have pet allergies, taking certain actions above may make a big difference in how you live. Learning about how to treat and prevent this issue is also a step towards responsibility, right? Among all, strongly recommend that you take JIMMY BX7 as the regular part of your cleaning routine as this is an easier and more effective way to remove pet hair and dander, and avoid pet allergy.

Don’t let allergies control the lovely life of you and your pets - the happier (and less allergic) you are, the happier your pet will be too.

About JIMMY

JIMMY, the brand under KingClean Electric Co., Ltd, is dedicated to creating a high-quality healthy life for global users. KingClean Electric Co., Ltd has been focusing on the environmental cleaning industry for 28 years since its establishment in 1994, and has been one of the world’s biggest vacuum cleaner developing and manufacturing companies for 18 years since 2004. The company has over 800 R&D engineers, applies for around 200 new patents every year and owns over 1600 patents, and develops around 100 new products each year. Relying on KingClean's strong quality control and production R&D system, JIMMY products are sold in more than 30 countries, and sales channels cover online and offline, creating a dream life for hundreds of millions of families around the world.

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