Where my daughter's cat is concerned I have to be quite careful what I say.
Said daughter claims a significant number of allergies, some, I feel, more real than others. However, there was no doubting the anaphalactic shock that a bee sting sent her into when she was 10. Still, 23 years later, she carries an epipen and has been known to run into a busy road to avoid an unidentified insect.
It therefore puzzles me that she allows their cat to sleep on her bed during the day, and then worries about the hives that she suffers when bitten by one of its fleas, hives that seem to be getting worse and resembling in some ways the rash she suffered after that bee sting 23 years ago.