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How Pets Benefit Babies- From The Week

By Healthy Darling · February 7th, 2013

My husband and I practically live for a our dog, so this article in The Week magazine about pets benefiting babies came as no surprise to me. (image: from blog.hannamac.com)

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From The Week:

Living with a dog or a cat may bolster babies’ health. After surveying the parents of nearly 400 infants over the course of a year, Finnish researchers found that children who lived with a dog were 31 percent more likely to be in good health than those who didn’t. They are also 44 percent less likely to have developed an ear infection and 20 percent less likely to have needed antibiotics. Owning a cat offered similar, though less significant, benefits. The more times pets spent outdoors, the healthier the babies that lived with them were, which suggests that dogs and other pets may track in dirt and germs from outdoors that “stimulate the immune system” of babies “to do a better job of fighting off infection,” Danelle Fisher, a pediatrician at St. John’s Health Center, tells the Los Angeles Times. Previous studies have shown that babies who are exposed to pets and dust are less likely to develop allergies and asthma.

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Comments

  1. Anne Kennedy Dotson says:
    February 7, 2013 at 12:13 pm

    I love this article Jenny! Thanks for posting!! So true…

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    • Healthy Darling says:
      February 7, 2013 at 1:16 pm

      it’s my pleasure! 🙂

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  2. Anward says:
    February 18, 2013 at 7:05 pm

    Have a great surgery. I will bring you brownies afterwards!

    Reply

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