14 DAY TRIAL // Being allergic to cats is by no means a joyride, especially if one happens to like them or has friends/family who would love nothing more than to snuggle up with one such fur ball.
The good news is that University of Cambridge scientists have just announced that they have pinned down the mechanisms underlying allergy to cats.
Therefore, it shouldn't take long before they manage to roll out a treatment for this condition.
Sky News reports that some people start to sneeze, cough and breathe heavily around kittens because proteins found in cat saliva, hormones and microscopic skin cells push their immune systems into overdrive.
The British scientists claim that they have been able to identify the biological pathway that allows these proteins to activate human immune cells, and that they now wish to develop drugs that would block it.
In time, the scientists hope that they will also manage to find a way to block the biological pathways that cause allergy to dogs.