Asthma attacks due to allergies?!

Question: Asthma attacks due to allergies?

Hello. My mom, age 48, suffers from asthma and she has had it since a teenager. A little less than a year ago she started working at a pet store and works in the small snimal departement. She is quite allergic to hamsters, and other small rodance and sometimes gets asthma attacks every little while though no major problems have happened yet. Tonight however, after handling one of our hamsters, she got a major asthma attack and had a really hard time breathing. Shes okay now and she does not have to go to the hospital, but i dont want this to happen again. We already decided to get rid of our own hamsters, but she reluctant to quit her job at the pet store. Im wondering, will her working at the pet store start to make her asthma attacks worse? I know its obvious that she will get these asthma attacks if she continues to work there, but what im wondering is will it cause her future major asthma attacks to become more severe? Almost to life threatening situations?

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While am not a doctor, but if she had a fairly nasty asthma attack, then it is highly likely she will have another.

She should go see her doctor and look at her asthma management plan and asthma preventative medications. As you mother knows that she is allergic to the hamsters and other rodents, then she either needs to take a antihistamine before she goes to work, or she asks if she can do something else in the store.

I suffer from asthma and certain things can exacerbate the asthma, kitten fur, dog fur, horses and pollens from trees and plants. And it is very scary when having major attack, but half the management is either taking adequate antihistamines or avoiding of the cause.

If you are certain that hamster caused the allergic reactions avoid it for ever. Other wise only trial and error method should be followed to find the causative agent that caused you the allergy.

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