Keeping dogs at home reduces the risk of asthma in children

The issue of children with asthma is still being studied and researched, but this study found an interesting thing, which they discovered now.

 Keeping dogs at home reduces the risk of asthma in children

Researchers from Sweden found that finding a dog in the house and mixing it with children from a young age, in addition to farm animals, reduces the risk of asthma in children.

The study, published in the scientific journal JAMA Pediatrics, indicated that childhood asthma is an increasing global health concern with time, and if the affected child is not treated, it is expected that this will result in a change in his lifestyle in the future to live with the disease.

Previous studies have linked various factors to the risk of developing asthma through high or low risk, such as exposure to secondhand smoke, contact with cats and dogs, family size and the child’s arrangement in the family.

Although the impact of contact with dogs from childhood and the risk of asthma has been studied, the results were not conclusive and conclusive, and the lead researcher in the study, Dr. Tove Fall, said: “Previous studies found that living in an animal farm would reduce the risk of developing asthma. About halfway through, so we wanted to study the effect of having dogs in the house.”

How did the study go?

The researchers targeted 28,511 children, knowing that 5% of them had asthma at the start of the study, while 4.2% of them had asthma at the age of seven.

The researchers found the following:

Child contact with dogs in the first year of his life reduced the risk of developing asthma by about 13% when he reached the age of entering school.

Mixing with farm animals reduced the risk of developing asthma by up to 52% when the child reached school age and about 31% before entering school.

The researchers explained that children who live with farm animals or dogs are constantly exposed to large and varied amounts of microorganisms and germs, and this would affect the risk of developing asthma and various infections.

Despite the results of the study, there are some limitations and limitations, which are:

Not studying the impact of exposure to animals outside the home.

Determining the age of subscribers up to six years.

However, on the other hand, the number of participants was very large, which gave the study and its results strong and positive among the different studies.

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