Saturday, August 6, 2011

Get a #dog, lower #allergy risk


Reuters, 7/25/11: Childhood pets linked to lower allergy risk: Study  A 2010 study from the University of Cincinnati showed than owning a dog may decrease the risk of childhood eczema, a skin condition.
                 Similarly, a 2011 study from Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit found that growing up with pets cut kids’ risk of developing pet allergies by half.
How could you possibly be allergic to me?
             A new study, published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology,            the scientists found having a dog or a cat before age five were each associated with a 15 percent reduction in nasal allergies.
              So having a dog or a cat is a good thing when you’re growing up if you’re concerned about allergies.  It can be a bad thing if you are growing up with George W. Bush, who was a sadistic bully as a child, and he has a B-B gun aimed at you or your pet. 

I will return the seeing-eye dog.                                         
I will return the seeing-eye dog.                                         I will return the seeing-eye dog.
     (Written on the chalkboard by Bart Simpson, as part of his punishment on The Simpsons.) 

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