A vaccine for your cat could stop humans having an allergic reaction to them scientists have developed a vaccine which could stop allergies to cats a jab has been found to significantly.
Cat allergy vaccine for humans.
Earlier this year hypopet ag announced in a press release that it was developing a vaccine that targets fel d 1 a.
A team of scientists from the swiss firm hypopet ag has developed a vaccine to combat the feline produced protein fel d 1 to which 10 of humans are allergic according to their press release.
During lab experiments the company gathered more than 50 young cats and provided three doses of the vaccine for nine weeks.
The vaccine doesn t try to desensitize the immune system of people allergic to cats as other existing immunotherapies like allergy shots do.
A new cat allergy vaccine that s administered to pets themselves not people.
The cat allergy vaccine may help prevent rashes nasal congestion and irritated eyes and may reduce the risk of asthma or developing chronic respiratory issues new york post reported wednesday.
Moreover your catrades who got the vaccine tended to have lower levels of fel d 1 in their saliva and tears.
The vaccine is also reported to have been well tolerated without any overt.
News for patients with cat allergy.
Finally when samples from your catrades who got the vaccine were mixed with blood from.
Cats treated with the vaccine were found to be less likely to trigger allergic reactions in humans exposed to them.
These antibodies bind to fel d 1 and thus have the ability to lower or neutralize its.
Rather it attempts to train the immune system of cats.