Pets may prevent allergies of children
Not only can relieve stress, have a pet at home can also make you have another advantage. Studies prove that children of people who have pets most do not have animal allergies.
A study shows that first year in the lives of children is an important period in building body resistance system, including against allergies. Children who have had contact with pets such as cats and dogs since childhood, will be able to prevent allergies later in life.
In a study of experts to study the blood samples of 600 participants aged 18 years, then compared the levels of antibodies to the allergens of dogs and cats to participants who have pets and do not.
Teenagers are close to pets since first year of life have a chance of 50 percent more resistant to dog or cat allergy compared with those not having pets.
“Exposing (close) children with cats and dogs in the house will not increase the risk of sensitization to these animals. It may even reduce the risk (allergy),” said Ganesh Wegienka of public health sciences department, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, as reported by the Telegraph, Wednesday (15/06/2011).
According Wegienka, this research proves that exposure to pets in early life does not make the children become allergic to the animals at risk in the future.
The results of this study have been published in the journal Clinical & Experimental Allergy.
The most common cat allergies are usually caused by a protein in the form of cat skin flakes and saliva, which controls 40 percent of people with asthma.
People who are allergic to cats or other animals will usually feel symptoms such as itchy eyes, sneezing, asthma and skin rashes.
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