March 6, 2010, 7:13 pm
I have pretty extreme cat allergies. After about 5 minutes of being in a house with a cat, I will have difficulty breathing, my chest will get tight and I start weezing. Sometimes I get itchy, red eyes and a runny nose, but mostly it is the breathing stuff that is the worst.
My boyfriend of 3 years' Mom moved to Hawaii 2 years ago, and I feel awful because we have yet to visit her. The real reason we haven't been yet is because of my allergies... she has two cats. We don't want to stay at a hotel because that would be too expensive and she has a perfectly good huge beautiful home where we could stay. She keeps encouraging me to come and says her house is clean and the cats don't go in certain bedrooms, and their house always has all the windows open, etc. But I am so scared because I know I will be miserable if my allergies do act up. Claritin only helps a little bit sometimes and Benedryl makes me pass out. What should I do? What is the best cure for cat allergies like mind?
I want to go on this wonderful vacation and see my future mother in law but cat allergies are ruining my life...