As if you needed any excuse to get yourself a four - legged companion , or give the one you presently have a boop on the nose and scratch on the belly for being very serious , new inquiry suggests that dogsmay help protect childrenfrom developing not only eczema but also asthma . Weirdly , this was found to be the case even if a child was known to be allergic to the animate being , but only in certain situation .
Researchers want to see if the front of a pawl in houses had any encroachment on these childhood circumstance . Eczema is often more usual in children than in adult , and do the skin to become ironical , red and itchy , while asthma is more commonly found in children living in urban environments .
From this , two studies looked at how exposure to dog at unlike points of exploitation impart . Both papershave been presentedat the American College of Allergy , Asthma and Immunology ( ACAAI ) yearly Scientific Meeting .
“ Although eczema is commonly found in infant , many people do n’t know there is a advance from eczema to food allergy to rhinal allergic reaction and asthma,”explainedallergist Gagandeep Cheema , who led the first written report look into the impacts of dogs on eczema . “ We require to know if there was a protective result in having a dog that retard down that forward motion . ”
The field of study lead by Cheema looked at the incidence of eczema in small fry whose mother were disclose to dogs for at least an hour a Clarence Shepard Day Jr. while pregnant . “ We found a female parent ’s exposure to firedog before the giving birth of a child is significantly associated with lower risk of eczema by age 2 years , but this protective effect goes down at age 10,”saidco - author Edward M. Zoratti .
In the second piece of research , looking at the impact that dog have on childhood asthma , the results were a petty more complicated . It consider the result that two different types of canine tooth exposure had on fry with asthma attack , with the first being a protein that affects Kid with allergy to dogs , and the second being bacteria found on the dog ’s pelt .
They found that the non - allergen bacteria seemed to have a protective effect against asthma attack symptoms for children , but the protein made the symptom worse . This mixed result means that exposure to the animals themselves is belike not recommended for those with asthma who are sensitised , but could possibly provide a raw therapy to aid ease symptoms by using the bacterium .
So the floofy friends in our life may be having a confirming force on our health , and that of our fry . Who ’s a secure boy ?
