Am I Allergic to My Dog Quiz
Questions: 15 · 10 minutes
1. After close contact such as cuddling your dog near your face, which experience is most typical?
I sometimes get a brief tickle or isolated sneeze without a consistent pattern.
I repeatedly develop sustained sneezing, congestion, or itchy and watery eyes.
I have no noticeable eye or nose response.
I rapidly develop intense symptoms that force me to stop contact or leave the area.
2. When your dog licks your bare skin, what most often happens at that spot?
I develop raised welts, marked swelling, or a rapidly spreading reaction.
My skin sometimes feels mildly itchy, but no clear mark develops.
There is no noticeable skin reaction.
A repeatable itchy, red patch or small hives appear where the saliva touched.
3. If a skin reaction appears after dog contact, how does washing the area and avoiding further contact affect it?
There is no reaction to track in the first place.
Any mild sensation changes unpredictably, so the trigger remains unclear.
The reaction repeatedly settles after washing and avoiding contact, then returns with exposure.
The reaction has continued spreading or worsening despite ending contact.
4. While playing energetically with your dog, which pattern best describes you?
I repeatedly become unusually wheezy or chest-tight compared with similar activity away from the dog.
My breathing response is no different from comparable activity elsewhere.
I have experienced severe breathlessness, collapse, or blue or gray lips during or after the activity.
I occasionally cough once or twice, but it does not form a clear exposure pattern.
5. Across several encounters with your dog, what pattern have you noticed on exposed hands or arms?
A faint itch has occurred once or twice without visible changes.
No recurring change has appeared.
Similar red patches or hives appear in the same kinds of contact situations.
Contact has caused extensive hives, painful swelling, blistering, or broken skin.
6. How does sleeping in a room your dog regularly uses affect you overnight or on waking?
I sometimes wake with a mild cough, but it is inconsistent and has possible alternate causes.
I repeatedly wake coughing, wheezing, or feeling chest tightness in that setting.
I have awakened struggling to breathe or unable to speak comfortably in full sentences.
I notice no breathing-related difference.
7. How do your symptoms compare between rooms where your dog spends time and dog-free places outside your home?
They are consistently worse in the dog-used rooms and improve elsewhere.
I have not noticed a difference between those settings.
They may be slightly worse in dog-used rooms, though other triggers could explain it.
Entering a dog-used room repeatedly causes an immediate, strong eye or nose flare.
8. After spending about an hour indoors with your dog, what usually happens to your eyes or nose?
I notice no meaningful change in my eyes or nose.
I occasionally notice mild irritation, but the connection to my dog is unclear.
I often develop itching, sneezing, or a runny nose that eases after I leave.
Close exposure repeatedly brings on rapid, intense sneezing or pronounced eye irritation.
9. During or shortly after close indoor time with your dog, what happens to your breathing?
My breathing does not noticeably change.
I occasionally get a brief cough or throat tickle, with no clear pattern.
I repeatedly develop coughing, mild wheezing, or chest tightness that improves away from the setting.
I have had major breathing difficulty, loud wheezing, or a feeling that my airway was narrowing.
10. Have symptoms in more than one body area occurred together soon after dog exposure?
No combined reaction has occurred.
I have occasionally had two mild symptoms together, such as a stuffy nose and slight itching.
I have repeatedly had combinations such as hives with coughing or eye symptoms with chest tightness.
I have had widespread hives or swelling together with breathing trouble, faintness, vomiting, or confusion.
11. What happens when you brush your dog, shake out its bedding, or vacuum its usual area?
I get mild, short-lived irritation on some occasions.
Nothing noticeable happens to my eyes or nose.
My eyelids become severely swollen, or I develop eye pain or vision changes.
These tasks predictably trigger sneezing, congestion, or itchy, watery eyes.
12. After petting your dog and then touching your face or neck, which response fits best?
I notice no skin change.
I sometimes notice mild itching that could have several explanations.
The contact repeatedly produces localized redness, itching, or small welts.
I have developed pronounced facial swelling or widespread hives after this contact.
13. Think about returning home after several dog-free days. Which pattern fits best?
My symptoms become marked soon after returning, and this has happened more than once.
I tend to feel better away and develop eye or nose symptoms again after returning.
I have noticed a possible difference once or twice, but the pattern is inconsistent.
Returning home does not produce a noticeable eye or nose change.
14. Which statement best matches your most concerning reaction during or after dog exposure?
I had a mild, brief throat sensation without other symptoms.
I had no breathing, throat, circulation, or whole-body reaction.
I developed recurring cough, wheeze, chest discomfort, or unusual breathlessness.
I struggled to breathe, felt my throat or tongue swell, became faint or confused, or worsened rapidly.
15. What happens after your skin rests against your dog's bed, blanket, or favorite sofa spot?
I occasionally feel slight irritation, but it is not repeatable.
I repeatedly get an itchy rash or hives on the areas that touched the surface.
I have had a fast-spreading rash or substantial swelling after contact.
I do not notice a contact-related skin response.