Is it worth getting pets if the family has a child? Judging by the study of physicians from Detroit (USA), this can be done, it is necessary, and best of all, in advance.
Is it worth getting pets if the family has a child? Judging by the study of physicians from Detroit (USA), this can be done, it is necessary, and best of all, in advance. It turns out that boys and girls who grow up in the same house with a dog or cat, by the age of 18, are half as likely as other children to suffer from an allergy to animal hair *. But this rule only works if the pet appeared in the family when the child was not yet a year old.
* Clinical and Experimental Allergy, 2011, vol. 41, issue 7.