We know that having pets during childhood has many benefits for children, both in your physical health, helping to prevent respiratory diseases and in your health by encouraging you to improve your self-esteem.
Now, a recent study has found that The larger the number of pets at home during the first year of children's lives, the greater the protection against allergies.
Published in the journal PLOS ONE, the study was conducted by a group of researchers from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, and analyzed the effects on children's health of coexistence between multiple pets and children during their first year of life.
In Babies and more Having a dog at home and maintaining a close relationship with him is beneficial for your children.According to the study, The more pets you have at home, the lower the risk of children suffering from allergies in the future., such as asthma, eczema and allergic rhinitis. To reach this conclusion, they reviewed the results of two previous studies, which included information on 1,278 children in total.
In one of the studies, for example, they found that 49% of children who had no pets during their first 12 months of life suffered allergies, while the figures were reduced as the number of pets increased:
- 43% of children who had a pet had allergies.
- 24% of children who had three pets had allergies
- Children who had five or more pets had no allergies at all.
In the other study, the results were very similar and they figure them down the more pets there were at home, so it is concluded that The greater the number of pets, the greater the protection against allergies.
With these results, we can reaffirm that having pets at home is beneficial for children, although of course, this will be a decision that must be taken according to the needs and abilities of each family.
