If you're allergic to guinea pigs what happens?

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Hiya I need to find out what happens when you are allergic to guinea pigs?

Also do you have to touch them to be allergic?

Can you be allergic by being in the same house and not ever touching them?

Many thanks!
 
My mum is seriously allergic to guinea pigs. For her, it is their urine (or rather the spores from the urine when it dries - I think). Just being in the same room as a pig starts her chest wheezing and antihistamines and her asthma inhaler do not help. To top it off, she also has hayfever and so can't stand being around their hay either! Good thing I don't live with her!
 
i'm allergic to rex piggies when they come in contact with my skin i come out in a rash. but i take antihistamine tablets. also dust in the hay makes me wheezy.

it all depends on what they are allergic to and the severity of it.

most allergic reactions can be calmed down by taking antihistamine tablets :)

not the same but i'm also allergic to some cats/fur as well, thats triggered off by me being near them, i domt have to touch them. this causes red itchy/watery eyes, runny nose and sneezing. even with antihistamine tablets
 
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emmas allergic to teddy pigs (so probably rex too) , when they touch her bare skin she ets itchy and a rash. she just wears a long sleeve hoodie or ifs its bad takes an anti-histhamine
 
I get a rash if I cuddle them close to my skin. I take antihistimines daily all year round and wear something that covers me up when I cuddle them.
 
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My mum is seriously allergic to guinea pigs. For her, it is their urine (or rather the spores from the urine when it dries - I think). Just being in the same room as a pig starts her chest wheezing and antihistamines and her asthma inhaler do not help. To top it off, she also has hayfever and so can't stand being around their hay either! Good thing I don't live with her!
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This is what happens to my mum, she used to look after them begrudgingly for my hols but now I have 4 (and a huge c&c set up) she'll be popping in and out a few times a day in future which i think she is secretly pleased about! rolleyes

I'm slightly allergic, they make me sneeze a little, short haired more than longhaired and my rex gives me a bit of a rash when he lies on my chest but it goes away after ive been away from them for a couple of hours or take an anti allergy tablet.

I think it varies from person to person and the hair type can also have factors as I mentioned above.
 
My mum is allergic but only to my peruvian/aby cross and not the other aby's or the smooth hair. She's only a touch allergic though and doesn't get affect by being around them, just if she sits and strokes that particular pig
 
I seem to have an allergy to some of the rough haired guinea pigs. I don't have to touch them, just being in close proximity is enough. It makes my lips and the skin on my face and neck tingle. It can set off my eye allergy (which is set of by other random things as well) which leads to a burning sensation and can cause my eyes to stream.
It hasn't happened often but one or two of the rescue piggies have caused this reaction.
 
Thanks everyone.

We are having a bad rescue month here :( I am about to have a trio of girls returned to me. The lady who adopted them said someone she looks after is allergic and her only alternative it outside for them - not part of our rescue standards for winter care. So it's back they will come.
 
I'm allergic to most/all animals, even reptiles, not just pigs, but my symptoms are pretty much all you can imagine!

I get dry/itchy/inflamed eyes, rashes/hives where there's been contact, I also get localised swelling with contact especially my hands, my asthma flares up, blocked and runny nose, I've even had my actual eyeballs swell up before now!

I take prescription antihistamines, eye drops, inhalers and steriod creams... but my furries are worth it!
 
lauralucy said:
i'm allergic to rex piggies when they come in contact with my skin i come out in a rash. but i take antihistamine tablets. also dust in the hay makes me wheezy.

it all depends on what they are allergic to and the severity of it.

most allergic reactions can be calmed down by taking antihistamine tablets :)

not the same but i'm also allergic to some cats/fur as well, thats triggered off by me being near them, i domt have to touch them. this causes red itchy/watery eyes, runny nose and sneezing. even with antihistamine tablets
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my god you have just described my allergies to a t! bizarre, you are so my forum sister!
 
I am slightly allergic to one of my piggies who has long hair over her bottom and her hair in general is longer and thicker than my short haired. I get itchy and develop a rash wherever she touches bare skin, if I keep well covered up it's no problem. It is a very mild reaction and I just use my son's hydrocortisone cream for his exczema and that calms and gets rid of any rash in about a day or so. It's never a problem as long as I remember not to scratch at it and to use the cream :(|)
 
I'm not allergic to my pigs but my brother is.
He gets all sneezey, runny nose and red eyed. Fortunately he doesn't live here anymore.
 
Fortunately, nobody in my home is allergic to the piggies. I tend to get a rash when they cuddle under my chin and on my chest, but handling them otherwise doesn't bother me.
 
What happens? You either deal with it or you don't. I choose to deal with it because it's not their fault, poor things. I use bathing and cleanliness of me and the animals, plus creams and antihistamines for the itching and tickly throat and postnasal drip. If I had an allergic child things would be different, but it is just me so I deal with it.
 
It's my first time to come here. Haha,Nice to meet everybody. I learn from my friends that this forum is very interesting.

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