Cat Allergy Vaccine For Humans

Rather it attempts to train the immune system of cats.

Cat allergy vaccine for humans.

A swiss pharmaceutical company announced the development of a vaccine that makes cats less able to produce allergens thereby lessening the likelihood of an owner developing an allergy. The vaccine doesn t try to desensitize the immune system of people allergic to cats as other existing immunotherapies like allergy shots do. Finally when samples from your catrades who got the vaccine were mixed with blood from. The vaccine for felines that hypopet has been working on induces anti fel d 1 antibodies in the cat.

During lab experiments the company gathered more than 50 young cats and provided three doses of the vaccine for nine weeks. A new cat allergy vaccine that s administered to pets themselves not people. These antibodies bind to fel d 1 and thus have the ability to lower or neutralize its. Cats treated with the vaccine were found to be less likely to trigger allergic reactions in humans exposed to them.

News for patients with cat allergy. Earlier this year hypopet ag announced in a press release that it was developing a vaccine that targets fel d 1 a. 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. 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.

The vaccine is also reported to have been well tolerated without any overt.