#live clear

gettingvetted here.

The only product that offers this capability is from Purina, which is a WSAVA-compliant diet. There should be no harm in trying it out. I watched a continuing education seminar on the invention and production of this food and apparently it works quite well. It contains an antibody to the allergy-inducing protein that is produced in cat saliva and is capable of reducing it by 60%. It does not prevent the cat from producing it, just neutralizes the protein locally in the salivary glands once it is produced. The theory is that not every cat has a high load of the allergy-inducing protein in their saliva, and even humans that are allergic to cats will probably not experience significant symptoms 100% of the time just because a certain threshold of allergens is needed to be reached in order to experience symptoms (so if you are mildly-moderately allergic to both pollen and cats, then you can take an anti-histamine like Zyrtec or Benadryl and a cat on its own probably wouldn’t bother you and neither would a lovely spring day, but a cat on a lovely spring day would reach your threshold despite anti-histamines and you would be miserable). So - if you have a cat that has a TON of allergy-inducing protein in the saliva, and a person who is VERY allergic to cats, this probably won’t help them very much. But if, like most cats, there is only a mild/moderate amount of allergy-inducing protein in their saliva, and if, like most humans, there is only a mild/moderate allergy to cats, then this food will likely help them (although there is an assumption that the human is willing to take those anti-histamines on a regular basis, to do their own part in making the relationship manageable and not put all the responsibility on the cat’s food).