Dogs can help your children avoid developing allergies

Having a dog when your children are young will cause them to develop fewer allergies as adults.

Dog ownership leads to less allergies in children

Did you know that owning a dog can help your children avoid developing allergies?  Seems illogical, but studies have proven that owning a dog when you children are young can help them develop less allergies over their lives and enter adulthood with less allergies that the average adult.  In fact, Dr. James E. Gem of the University of Wisconsin-Madison has found that keeping a pet in the home can lower a child's likelihood of developing related allergies by as much as 33%.

Dogs can keep your children asthma free

Asthma is something that no one wants their children to develop.  Did you know that owning a dog can help your children live asthma free?  Scientists at the University of California-San Francisco have found that microbes that are present in homes with dogs may colonize the GI (gastro-intestinal tract), modulate immune responses and protect the host against the asthmagenic pathogen, RSV.  In short: dogs in the house when your children are young leads to their bodies developing protection against asthma.

Adopting a dog will help your children grow up asthmas and allergy free.  Contact your local rescue and adopt a dog (other other pet) today.  Remember, spay and neuter your pets!

by Gemma Torcivia
October 21, 2012