All warm-blooded animals shed tiny flakes from their skin. This is called dander. (It's like dandruff in humans but much harder to see.) When someone is allergic to animals, it could be dander that's ...

Health experts caution that floating fur can trigger allergies in humans, and animal dander - tiny flakes of skin shed by any warm-blooded creature with fur or feathers - could interfere with your ...

Pets have a protein in their saliva (spit), urine (pee), or dander (tiny flakes of dead skin) that can set off a person's asthma or allergy symptoms. How Can I Help My Child Deal With It? If you think ...