Pets are often the cause of allergies, both in children and adults. Hypersensitivity can occur both to animal meat and to pet waste products. Allergy to rabbits manifests itself within 48 hours after human contact with the animal. Consider in the article in more detail the signs of allergies, diagnostic methods and ways to eliminate negative symptoms.
Major allergens
Hypersensitivity of the body can be caused by the following allergens:
- Rabbit saliva.
- Skin particles (dandruff).
- Urine.
- Excrement.
- Wool.
- Food
- Pet care products.
Allergy to decorative rabbit
It is not uncommon for parents to give their child a rabbit of decorative breeds. Such pets are owners of long hair, which contains particles of skin secretions that causesevere allergic reactions. To avoid this, you should pay attention to smooth-haired animals.
If an adult or a child has already been diagnosed with an allergy to wool, then keeping a decorative rabbit at home is quite dangerous for the he alth of an allergic person. In this situation, the risk of developing cross-allergic reactions increases.
Allergic symptoms to rabbit meat
Hypersensitivity to whey protein and immunoglobulins contained in rabbit blood is accompanied by the following allergic reaction from the gastrointestinal tract and nervous system:
- the appearance of a strong feeling of nausea;
- flatulence and bloating;
- vomit;
- increase in overall body temperature;
- headaches.
If you find the above signs, you should immediately protect the contact of the patient with the allergen. Otherwise, the he alth of an adult or a child may deteriorate dramatically.
Symptoms of allergy to rabbit waste products
A negative reaction of the body occurs not only to meat, but also to skin secretions or animal urine. In this situation, you can observe the following symptoms of a rabbit allergy:
- swelling of the mucous tissue of the larynx;
- hacky cough;
- severe shortness of breath occurs;
- lack of air;
- nasal congestion;
- instant reddening of the skin;
- Profuse nasal discharge.
If the patient also suffers from bronchial asthma, hypersensitivity to the rabbit may cause asthma attacks. In severe conditions, anaphylactic shock and angioedema develop.
Diagnosis
To prescribe effective treatment, an allergist conducts an initial history taking, during which a genetic predisposition to rabbit allergy is revealed. Please note that special attention is paid to the collection of anamnesis from the child. In this case, the severity of the symptoms directly depends on how the allergy manifested itself in the parents.
To confirm the diagnosis, doctors prescribe laboratory tests to determine the irritant:
- complete blood count;
- skin tests;
- test for specific immunoglobulin E;
- determination of antibodies of immunoglobulins G and E.
An important element in diagnosing a patient with a rabbit allergy are elimination tests. Elimination is the removal of the allergen from the victim's daily diet, i.e. diet.
Pay attention! Whether there can be an allergy to a rabbit, only a qualified doctor finds out after studying the results of laboratory tests.
If the rabbit has already been bought
If the pet has already been bought, and the child in the family turned out to be hypersensitive, then parents should worry about compliance in advancethe following rules:
- The place where the rabbit lives should be kept clean and dry at all times.
- Contact of a child with an animal should be limited.
- During the molting period, the long-haired rabbit should be well combed.
- A pet should not sleep with children and adults who suffer from allergies.
- It is advisable to keep the animal in a cage and only a few times a day to allow walks within certain limits (without contact with personal belongings of an allergic person and furniture).
Allergy to a rabbit in a child
Children are much more likely to seek contact with animals than adults. However, when equipping a pet's home in a child's room, many parents do not even suspect how many troubles can arise due to such a whim of the baby. According to medical statistics, in children, allergic symptoms are much more severe and can develop into anaphylactic shock or Quincke's edema in a short period of time.
The most difficult to recognize allergies in infants, as hyperemic skin rashes most often resemble infectious diseases. The rate of progression of symptoms in children is unpredictable. This means that even the slightest sign of a rabbit allergy in a child should not be ignored, as it can be fatal at an early age.
It is important for parents to monitor the reactions of the baby, how restless the child is, whether he refuses to eat. Often a sign of allergy can be copious discharge from the nose, which resembles the symptoms of SARS. However, after visiting the pediatrician and as a resultLaboratory tests show that the child has an increased amount of antibodies in the blood, which is a provoking factor in the response of the immune system.
Rules for the treatment of the disease
The effectiveness of therapy directly depends on a well-built algorithm for treating allergies to rabbit meat and its waste products, namely:
- Minimize contact with the irritant (animal, food, care products).
- Make a wet cleaning indoors.
- Stay on medication.
- Increase immunity by taking vitamin complexes and a well-structured diet.
- Further elimination of contact with fur animals.
If an allergic person lives in the family, then doctors recommend regularly ventilating the premises, as well as monitoring the permissible level of humidity in the rooms.
Medicated treatment
It is impossible to completely get rid of the disease, but doctors recommend taking a course of drug therapy to alleviate the symptoms of rabbit allergy. At the first sign, doctors recommend:
- Second-generation antihistamines that can block histamine production while reducing the severity of allergy symptoms.
- In order to remove toxins from the body, the doctor prescribes enterosorbents to neutralize the negative effects of irritants on the body.
- Prescribed to increase immunityimmunopreparations that not only restore the body's natural defenses, but also prevent SARS.
- Corticosteroids may be given for severe conditions.
The dosage, duration of treatment and type of drug should be selected only by a qualified doctor. Before taking prescribed drugs, you should study in detail the side effects, among which may be drowsiness and lethargy. In the process of treatment with such medications, it is worth limiting travel by car directly behind the wheel.
Recipes of traditional medicine
Traditional medicine will help alleviate the condition with allergies, namely:
- Eliminate skin rashes will help baths based on a series of tripartite, St. John's wort, medicinal sage, valerian root and chamomile flowers.
- You can remove redness on the skin with an infusion of stinging nettle leaves, string, oregano, licorice root.
- Valerian and hawthorn tincture based on vodka will help strengthen weakened immunity.
- To relieve itching, a mixture of propolis tincture with walnut infusion is used.
- An infusion of calendula flowers will help fight allergies to rabbits.
Before you use a certain traditional medicine, you should consult your doctor. This will avoid cross-allergies or worsening he alth conditions.
Prevention
In order to prevent the development of acute allergic symptoms, the patient should be constantly monitored by an allergist. If ina fur-bearing animal still lives in the room, it is necessary to regularly change the food and wash the animal itself. Premises must be ventilated twice a day without fail. If preventive measures are ineffective, then you should refuse to keep the rabbit at home.
Allergy to rabbits occurs in humans at different ages and directly depends on how often the allergic person "communicated" with the animal. You should not self-medicate, which can only worsen the condition of an allergic person and lead to the development of intractable pathologies.
