Invisible allergens: animals, perfume

While I agree with Kathleen Doheny’s article (“Lodgings Beat Pollen to the Punch,” Healthy Traveler, March 23), she missed several problems for many of us allergy sufferers: People who use perfume by the bottle and those who bring animals (cats and dogs) into rooms. Many people are as allergic to perfume and animals as they are to pollens, and those things can cause as severe an allergic reaction.

For smoke or perfume your nose knows, and you can request another room. But with animals, you know they were there only when the asthma attack starts.

Sally Wozniak

Pomona