How to raise a healthy baby

In the MONDAY, July 9 (HealthDay News)By Serena Gordon -- "Babies who live with dogs and cats during their first year of life may be less susceptible to respiratory infections, such as the common cold, according to new research". Also quoted from this article "Children who had dog contacts at home were healthier and had less frequent ear infections and needed fewer courses of antibiotics than children who had no dog contacts," said the study's lead author, Dr. Eija Bergroth, a pediatrician who worked at Kuopio University Hospital, in Finland, at the time of the study.

You may ask how dose this occur and why is this true? The human body is a complex system which is made of may parts but the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One of the parts of the system is the immune system and like any other part of the body, heart, lungs, muscles etc., the immune system needs to be worked out. If you have allergies and go to your allergist what happens? They give you low dose shoots of what you are allergic too until your sensitivity to the foreign proteins are reduced. Having pets in the home is smiler. Your dog or cat not only produces allergens them-self but when they go outside into the environment they bring back pollen and other allergens.Your child is then exposed to these allergens in small doses and creates an appropriate immune response instead of an inappropriate on , also known as an allergy.

In this way the exposers through the pets creates a healthier stronger child and ultimately an adult.

It is time that we start to treat germs and allergies appropriately and understand what is behind them. There is no shoot that will make them go away and there is nothing that will cure them magically. The ability to deal with allergies is bore inside us and only needs to be fostered and nurtured appropriately. Small doses on a daily basis is the way the human system was designed and when we expose ourselves this way we become healthier and stronger for the exposers.

By Paul R. Mahler Jr. DC
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