Help! I’m allergic to my friends!

Okay, not really. I’m allergic to their pets. But still.

So I wasn’t always allergic to cats and dogs. But for some reason my last pregnancy triggered a bunch of new allergies for me. One of them is pet dander.

I’ve tried taking allergy medication. But I don’t do so well on them. And they don’t seem to work for me either.

The last time they invited us to dinner, I popped some allergy meds. But still had to run home to use an inhaler.

So now I don’t go over to their house anymore. :(

When their daughter comes over for a play date, I get mildly wheezy just from secondary contact.

When my daughter comes back from a play date at their house, it’s even worse.

As soon as she got home, I gave her a plastic bag to change out of her clothes. And asked her to wash her hands.

Even then, as I was reading a bedtime story to her hours later, my eyes started getting puffy and my chest started feeling wheezy. I then asked her to shower, which helped a bit.

But I can’t exactly ask their daughter to shower each time they come over.

Help! What can I do?!