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Having Pets as an Infant Lowers Risk to Allergies and Obesity

According to Medical News Today, exposing babies to pets at a young age will lower the child’s risk to allergies and obesity. This is because pets provide two beneficial bacteria, Ruminococcus and Oscillospira that have been linked to decreasing the likelihood of obesity and allergies. The effects will be active if the baby is exposed to the pet at least before they are three months old.

Researchers hope that hope that one day they can put these helpful bacterias into a pill to help children’s health, but for now we can just rely on our furry friends. It might even help if the children’s mothers are around dogs while the babies are in the womb. They found these results out by testing feces of babies with dogs, and babies without dogs. All of the babies with dogs contained the helpful bacteria.

“If this is the case, a lot of people should have dogs, but I find this finding understandable.” says Eay Mey Burman, eighth grader at JPEC.

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