Dog allergy is a common type of pet allergy. Symptoms of dog allergy can affect any individual from any age group, from children to adults. The dog allergy symptoms may vary from person to person depending on individual capacity to fight the allergen.The symptoms can appear in a mild form in some people,moderate in some other cases and to an unfortunate yet small group of people who are extremely sensitive to dog dander,dog allergy can appear in a very severe form.

Dog allergy symptoms are, in most cases, similar to the symptoms of hay fever and other seasonal allergies. The symptoms of dog allergy may include can cause a number of diseases which may include:

• Itching and redness in different areas of the skin
• Red, itchy and swollen eyes
• Runny nose and nasal congestion
• Itchy and stuffy ear
• Post nasal drip
• Fits of sneezing
• Hoarseness of voice
• Throat itching
• Coughing
• Wheezing
• Frequent Bronchitis
• Fatigue
• Headache
• Asthma

A person suffering from dog allergy may suffer from some of the symptoms listed above. Sometimes a long spell of dog allergy symptoms in an individual may lead to asthma. Again a person who is already suffering from asthma can develop severe complications when he or she comes in contact with dog dander if that person is allergic to dogs also. The condition may deteriorate so much that the sufferer may experience dizziness, nausea, numbness in limbs and even loss of consciouness.Such conditions need doctor’s immediate assistance to combat them.

Dog allergy symptoms in some instances may need only a few minutes to develop while in some other occurrences a person may experience the symptoms after several hours or even several days after his exposure to the allergen. Sometimes it becomes difficult to diagnose dog allergy because the person experiencing the dog allergy symptoms may mistake the symptoms for common cold and ignores them until they become intolerable.