It’s dangerous to sleep with your dog
Dogs transfer sicknesses on their owners faster, if they sleep with them or are around their own bed.
According to Fred Landeg, head veterinary surgeon at the British government.
Dogs which sleep in the sleeping room or in the kitchen increase the risk for their owners to be contaminated with all kinds of exotic sicknesses, concluded Landeg on the basis of a many years’ study.
There are possible health risks if you are very close with your dog daily. Thus salmonella will transfer easily from dogs to humans.
Especially very young and older people, pregnant women and persons with a bad immune system must be careful. “only for them the viruses from dogs are possible to have an impact”, according to the Belgian veterinary surgeon rob Lückerath. But according to the veterinary surgeon it is “exaggerated to that think all those sicknesses are transmissible.
Landeg warns especially for so-called ‘ new sicknesses ‘. Like Sars, a sickness which originated from a transfer of an existing sickness on animals. For this reason I would advise never to leave your dog in the sleeping room.
Landeg recognises, however, that a dog has also positive impact for the health of owners. Walking the dog will make you fit and lower your blood presser. Moreover people recover more rapidly after an operation if they have a pet.
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