Early Animal Exposure Decreases Childhood Asthma Risk

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Exposure to dogs and farm animals during the first year of life decreased the risk for asthma in children at 6 years of age, according to a registry-based cohort study published in the November 2 issue of JAMA Pediatrics.
These new data support the “hygiene hypothesis” that early exposure to animals decreases the risk for childhood asthma and “might be helpful in decision making for families and physicians on the appropriateness and timing of early animal exposure,” write Tove Fall, PhD, from Uppsala University in Sweden, and colleagues. The incidence of childhood asthma has been increasing around the world.

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