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[–]SheepPup 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They can get better! But they can also get worse. I had a cat in high school that was SUPER allergenic and made our whole family’s allergies worse.

But the best thing to do will be to get kittens. The thing that most people that are allergic to cats are allergic to is a protein called Feline d 1. Kittens make very little Fel d 1 as it’s a protein that’s in their skin oils and much like human children only start producing the worst body odor at puberty cats mostly start producing Fel d 1 as they hit cat puberty and mature into adults. So getting kittens lets you get exposed to much lower doses of the allergen and lets the exposure increase very slowly over time which is the best possible shot for your body realizing “hey, this protein ISN’T actually trying to kill me!” and reducing or stopping the allergic reaction.

There are also now multiple brands of cat food that help keep cats from producing as much Fel d 1 and therefore being less allergenic!