# Can I stop being allergic to guinea pigs if I get more exposed to them?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-stop-being-allergic-to-guinea-pigs-if-i-get-more-exposed-to-them/573911>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 8, 2011, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-stop-being-allergic-to-guinea-pigs-if-i-get-more-exposed-to-them/573911 "2011-03-08T12:22:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![CatherineZeta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@CatherineZeta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatherineZeta)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-stop-being-allergic-to-guinea-pigs-if-i-get-more-exposed-to-them/573911/21 "2012-11-21T17:49:53Z")

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One of our guinea pigs needed his nose wiped on a regular basis. The vet didn’t have any obvious answers as to why- the pig was just susceptible to colds (and it wasn’t life threatening- he lived to be 6 years old). An allergy to people would have never crossed my mind.

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