A treatment for people who are allergic to cats could be on the cards after a breakthrough by researchers at Cambridge University.

Symptoms of an allergic reaction include itchy and swollen eyes, sneezing, coughing and breathing difficulties – similar to those suffered when people have a cold.

Now, for the first time, the scientists involved in this report suggest it will be possible to develop a drug that will control such an allergy.

The most common cat allergy comes from the Fel d 1 allergen which is passed on by cats through saliva.

When they clean themselves, the saliva, hormones and microscopic skin cells – known as dander/dandruff – pass on to their coat, and that is when the human suffers the allergy.

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