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Surprising New Info About Children, Allergies And Pets
By Susan Dunn, MA Clinical Psychology, Fri Dec 9th
Have you wondered whether to get your child a pet or not? Doesyour family have a history of allergies and have you been toldby your pediatrician it’s not a good idea? There’s interesting news from the Medical College of George(MCG), evidence from a new study about children and petspublished in the Journal of the American Medical Associatio thathaving pets may actually help with allergies. Dr. Dennis R. Ownby, chief of MCG’s Section of andimmunology has followed 474 babies from birth to age 7 and hasfound that children exposed to two or more in-door pets werehalf as likely to develop common allergies.
“Allergists have been trained for generations that dogs and catsin the house are bad because they increase the risk of youbecoming allergic to the; we know that before you becomeallergic to something, you have to be repeatedly exposed to it.” He and his staff were just as surprised at the results of theirstudy as you may be reading it! “The data didn’t look the way itwas supposed to; as a matter of fact, it was very strongly theopposite of what we expected to find,” said Ownby. Ownby
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speculates that the reason so many kids have allergies andashthma now is because we live too clean a life. When kids play with cats and dogs, he says, they get licked. Andthat lick transfers a lot of Gram-negative bacteria that maychange the way the child’s immune system responds, says Ownby.The “lick” gives them exposure to higher levels of what’s called“endotoxins,” the breakdown toxin from the Gram-negativebacteria. According to an article from the Medical College of Georgia,studies from southern Germany and Switzerland are confirmingthat children of farmers, regularly exposed to animals, haveless allergies than city kids. Check it out with your pediatrician, but it may be getting a petor two would be beneficial for your children's allergyresistance, as well as all the other benefits we drive from ourbeloved pets. About the author:(c)Susan Dunn, MA Clinical Psychology, The EQ Coach,ttp://www.susandunn.cc . Coaching for all your needs, includingincreasing your child's emotional intelligence and your own. EQmatters more to success and happiness than IQ and it can belearned. Mailto:sdunn@susandunn.cc for FREE ezines. Put "EQWork" or "EQ Personal" (or both) for subject line. Startincreasing your EQ today.
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