Exposure to numerous pets during infancy found to reduce allergies later on

Medical X-Press – Bob Yirka

A team of researchers at the University of Gothenburg has found that when infants live with pets, they grow up to have fewer allergies and other diseases. In their paper published on the open access site PLOS ONE, the group describes their study of datasets that held information on children’s health and whether they had lived with pets as infants, and what they found. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-12-exposure-numerous-pets-infancy-allergies.html