Cat allergies may be tamed by adding an asthma therapy to allergy shots

The effects lasted at least a year after treatment stopped, a small study finds

A man lays on a bed looking at a gray cat next to him on the bed.

Cat dander makes some people sneeze, itch and become generally miserable with allergic symptoms. A new study suggests adding an antibody to traditional cat allergy shots may help calm those beastly reactions better than shots alone.

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Adding lab-made antibodies to allergy shots may better groom the immune system against cat allergies than standard shots alone.