As every dog-iron lover knows , you ’re going to get the odd clout across the fount from your furry champion . Of course , there are actually those who enjoy a slobbery show of affectionateness from their frump . grant to aesculapian professional and virologist , this might not be the best idea ; we do n’t want to be a party pooper , although there is probably some of that in their mouth too .
As John Oxford , emeritus professor of virology and bacteriology at Queen Mary University in London , recently explained toThe Hippocratic Post:“It is not just what is carried in saliva . hotdog spend half of their liveliness with their nozzle in nasty corners or hovering over blackguard droppings so their muzzles are full of bacterium , viruses and germs of all sorting . ”
But can this make any problems ?
A woman from the United Kingdom find out out the hard means . After compact an contagion from her Italian greyhound ’s spittle , she ended up in intensive aid for weeks with multiple organ failure .
The fib of her so - shout out “ lick of demise ” was order in a recentBMJ Case Report . It start out when she cover having slur actor’s line while she was on the phone with a relative , which prompt her to call an ambulance . By the fourth dimension paramedic get there , she was find slumped in her armchair losing consciousness . She reach the infirmary , where she regained knowingness and her stipulation better . She reported no other symptoms , aside from a defective concern the night before .
After four mean solar day , however , her condition sneak again and she began suffering from discombobulation , cephalalgia , diarrhea , a high fever , and her kidney began to fail . She went on to get from reduced liver function and respiratory unsuccessful person . She was moved to intensive caution when it became decipherable she was stomach from severe sepsis , commonly hump as blood toxic condition .
stock run show the presence of an infection fromCapnocytophaga canimorsusbacteria . Although rare , this bacterium is find in the mouths of cats and hotdog . However , the char showed no bite or scratch marks , top the doctors to trust the transmission was through a lick from her Italian greyhound .
Although it is worth noting the lady was in her seventy , she had no underlying immune dysfunction . She had to drop two week in intensive care , until her contagion was clear through a treatment of antibiotics .
" There have only been about 13 cases reported in the intact United Kingdom , and I ’m guess on a like scale in the U.S. , " said Shelley Rankin , associate prof of microbiology at Penn Vet , toCBS News . “In funding of all thing furry , this is a normal flora in the mouth of dogs . "
Dr. Bruce Farber , chief of infectious disease at North Shore University Hospital , supply : " The last thing you want to do is alarm people that they ’ll be infect if they get licked or snog by a dog . "
So , while it ’s deserving consider that there can be some tight things bushwhack in your frankfurter ’s lip , barker - smooch are hardly always a death sentence .
Give us a kiss . figure reference : Eric E Castro / Flickr.(CC BY 2.0 )
