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House Mouse Allergy
by Trialanderror, Apr 05, 2009 05:01PM
This is not really a question, just something I noticed:
We live in a townhouse complex that is about 30 years old. When we first moved in, both my preschooler and I sneezed like crazy every day and when vacuum cleaning the carpets, my eyes and nose were just watering like a faucet. Pretty soon I realized we shared the place with a mouse and its little family. Very cute but they had to go...
I then blocked the dryer vent and all was quiet.
One winter later a new mouse appeared. It went the way of the first one - and I blocked another point of entry which was under the step at the front door. All quiet since then. Both times a mouse was present, we had those allergic reactions and never again since then.
Turns out later that pretty much all neighbors have a mouse problem, more or less. And when my son visits friends in the area, in some instances he sneezes about 100 times and has to leave. There is one home where the mouse problem seems to be fully out of control, their girl told us she sees at least seven of those critters per day (!) - and guess what: she has severe asthma, aside from nut allergies.
Since I saw how my son and I were allergy-free again in our own home after all that mouse-proofing, I was sure it was all linked to rodent dander. I googled it and noticed there is a lot of research now that points to how many cases of asthma are actually linked to the presence of mice.
Sorry this got so long. Maybe it helps someone, thought it was interesting.
We live in a townhouse complex that is about 30 years old. When we first moved in, both my preschooler and I sneezed like crazy every day and when vacuum cleaning the carpets, my eyes and nose were just watering like a faucet. Pretty soon I realized we shared the place with a mouse and its little family. Very cute but they had to go...
I then blocked the dryer vent and all was quiet.
One winter later a new mouse appeared. It went the way of the first one - and I blocked another point of entry which was under the step at the front door. All quiet since then. Both times a mouse was present, we had those allergic reactions and never again since then.
Turns out later that pretty much all neighbors have a mouse problem, more or less. And when my son visits friends in the area, in some instances he sneezes about 100 times and has to leave. There is one home where the mouse problem seems to be fully out of control, their girl told us she sees at least seven of those critters per day (!) - and guess what: she has severe asthma, aside from nut allergies.
Since I saw how my son and I were allergy-free again in our own home after all that mouse-proofing, I was sure it was all linked to rodent dander. I googled it and noticed there is a lot of research now that points to how many cases of asthma are actually linked to the presence of mice.
Sorry this got so long. Maybe it helps someone, thought it was interesting.
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