In this Project we will monitor the symptoms of cat allergic participants who live together with a cat which is immunized with FEL-CMV using the novel symptom recording method "HypoScore", a General weekly symptom score, and a skin prick test before and after immunization of the cat. This project may enable us to determine if the scoring System and the tests are able to detect a difference in participant symptoms before and after immunization of the cats.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
10
Home-based tests in which the participant pets his/her cat until he/she reaches a certain symptom strength.
Skin Prick Tests will be performed with registered cat allergen extract.
University Hospital Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland
Organ specific symptom sum score of HypoScore measured after petting the cat at baseline versus week 24
Organ specific symtpom score component of HypoScore is measured with a questionnaire before and after the participants perform the tests with their cats (petting the cat until certain symptoms are reached).
Time frame: Comparison of the symptom score of 3 baseline measurements and measurement in week 24
General weekly symptom score measured at baseline (with unimmunized cat) versus week 24 (with immunized cat)
General weekly symptom score is measured with a weekly questionnaire. This questionnaire will be filled in on a weekly Basis.
Time frame: Measured over 25 weeks
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