Guest guest Posted December 12, 2006 Report Share Posted December 12, 2006 There is a genetic component to asthma (as there is in most autoimmune diseases), but it appears to require an environmental trigger. http://www.asthmaandallergies.org/N_Controlling%20Asthma%20triggers.htm Heredity isn't the whole story. No one in my family, parents, uncles, aunts, 5 siblings, or their offspring, have asthma. Arne =========================================================== Subject: Re: Hello everyone.. She told me even if I bathed it, someone else changed the litter box etc... I would most likely end up with asthma and my kids eventually would too - since allergies are inherited. Your kids have a 50% chance of having allergies just by you having allergies. It does not mean though that your kids are going to be allergic to the same things you are...it just means that they have a chance of being allergic to something. I think that your allergist wanted to make sure you dont keep the kitten. In my extended family, none of the adults in my mothers generation have asthma, yet there are at least 3 of us in my generation who do. Dont get me wrong, Im glad you decided it wasnt worth the risk...but just remember that because you are allergic to something or might have asthma doesnt mean your kids are sentenced to the same fate. They might find they are allergic to something else. ============================================================ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 12, 2006 Report Share Posted December 12, 2006 Being very allergic to cats (etc.) myself, I never let my kids have any fuzzy pet not contained in a cage (mouse, hamster) when they were little. I was always afraid they might develop a serious allergy (or my own asthma would go out of control) just about the time they became firmly bonded to the animal. Just as well, too: one of my kids is rather allergic to cats in spite of having hardly been exposed. In asthma , Jan dobsonranch wrote: > > I wasn't talking about asthma being hereditary. We we saying that an allergy to cats can be and of course not everyone who suffers allergies goes on to get asthma > > stonehollow@... wrote: There is a genetic component to asthma (as there is in most autoimmune diseases), but it appears to require an environmental trigger. > > http://www.asthmaandallergies.org/N_Controlling%20Asthma% 20triggers.htm > > Heredity isn't the whole story. No one in my family, parents, uncles, aunts, 5 siblings, or their offspring, have asthma. > > Arne > =========================================================== > > Subject: Re: Hello everyone.. > > She told me even if I bathed it, someone else changed the litter box etc... I would most likely end up with asthma and my kids eventually would too - since allergies are inherited. > > Your kids have a 50% chance of having allergies just by you having allergies. It does not mean though that your kids are going to be allergic to the same things you are...it just means that they have a chance of being allergic to something. I think that your allergist > wanted to make sure you dont keep the kitten. In my extended family, none of the adults in my mothers generation have asthma, yet there are at least 3 of us in my generation who do. > > Dont get me wrong, Im glad you decided it wasnt worth the risk...but > just remember that because you are allergic to something or might have > asthma doesnt mean your kids are sentenced to the same fate. They > might find they are allergic to something else. > > ============================================================ > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 12, 2006 Report Share Posted December 12, 2006 From what I understand, the tendencey to develop allergies can be inhereted, but what your body becomes hypersenestive too is not. It depends on what you are exposed to in your envrionment. The tendency for allergies and asthma to be inhereted together has to do with the genes that regulate these tendencies, and the environment you are exposed too. Brittney There is a genetic component to asthma (as there is in most autoimmune diseases), but it appears to require an environmental trigger. > > http://www.asthmaandallergies.org/N_Controlling%20Asthma% 20triggers.htm > > Heredity isn't the whole story. No one in my family, parents, uncles, aunts, 5 siblings, or their offspring, have asthma. > > Arne > =========================================================== > > Subject: Re: Hello everyone.. > > She told me even if I bathed it, someone else changed the litter box etc... I would most likely end up with asthma and my kids eventually would too - since allergies are inherited. > > Your kids have a 50% chance of having allergies just by you having allergies. It does not mean though that your kids are going to be allergic to the same things you are...it just means that they have a chance of being allergic to something. I think that your allergist > wanted to make sure you dont keep the kitten. In my extended family, none of the adults in my mothers generation have asthma, yet there are at least 3 of us in my generation who do. > > Dont get me wrong, Im glad you decided it wasnt worth the risk...but > just remember that because you are allergic to something or might have > asthma doesnt mean your kids are sentenced to the same fate. They > might find they are allergic to something else. > > ============================================================ > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 13, 2006 Report Share Posted December 13, 2006 Arne- You are right on the hereditary part...There's no family history in my family of Asthma. Mine, I do believe, was adult onset. Re: Hello everyone..She told me even if I bathed it, someone else changed the litter box etc... I would most likely end up with asthma and my kids eventually would too - since allergies are inherited. Your kids have a 50% chance of having allergies just by you having allergies. It does not mean though that your kids are going to be allergic to the same things you are...it just means that they have a chance of being allergic to something. I think that your allergist wanted to make sure you dont keep the kitten. In my extended family, none of the adults in my mothers generation have asthma, yet there are at least 3 of us in my generation who do. Dont get me wrong, Im glad you decided it wasnt worth the risk...but just remember that because you are allergic to something or might have asthma doesnt mean your kids are sentenced to the same fate. They might find they are allergic to something else.============ ========= ========= ========= ========= ========= === Need a quick answer? Get one in minutes from people who know. Ask your question on Yahoo! Answers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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