I am not a migrane sufferer but I do work with two people who are sat next/opposite me that do get them. I also get a cat that will visit me at my desk. I don't

I am not a migrane sufferer but I do work with two people who are sat next/opposite me that do get them. I also get a cat that will visit me at my desk. I don't think the cat gets migranes however there have been times when all the migraine and allergy problems of the world have been blamed on my furry friend. So the haywire craziness of my colleagues' immune systems is entirely due to a cat, even though there is no correlation between 'migrane days' and 'cat visit days' - makes sense to me, particularly since the migraines predated the cat. I just quietly take my desk cat to another colleague's desk, far away from the allergy zone, however, I would far prefer the company of the cat to some of my 'haywire bodied' workmates... I sometimes want to say 'you live in the middle of a ring road in one of the most polluted cities in Europe breathing diesel particulates all day long and you think this cat is causing your migraines!' I live in the suburbs, to the west of the city, not on a major road. There are no busses thundering by my door. I walk/cycle in to work rather than spend 2 hours a day packed into public transport. My immune system has to deal with cat hairs not the combined toxic soup of pollution that goes on in the city or a smorgasbord of medical pills to counteract the allergy. I do understand that people can have allergy haywire hell from birth and that things like cats are a serious allergy problem. I do know how debilitating these things can be, i.e. can't really work. However, I feel that my colleagues are in a horrible catch-22 of medications and lifestyle choices. If they could somehow move to somewhere where breathing was possible they might not have that particular continual assault on their system. But it is about assaulting the system in the right way, so more cat is probably needed rather than the 'OCD' everything must be sterilised clean with chemicals approach to the home. But it is too late, the die was probably cast in early childhood for my two colleagues and they are condemned to spending the rest of their days 'avoiding cats', taking the pills and doing whatever the doctor says. If I did a house-swap with them I doubt that they would be miraculously cured (or that I might suddenly start getting headaches and rashes). My colleagues will probably bring up children that never play with cats and where every surface is chemically blitzed clean. Their children will probably grow up in a world where taking all the pills makes sense and things like cats/flowers/hay-lofts/soil are verboten. They will probably blame genes rather than 21st century lifestyle choices when trying to work out what has gone wrong. The problem will move on to another generation, more money for big pharma, nothing solved.