Hypoallergenic Dogs Don't Have Lower Household Allergen Levels Than Other Dogs

That's the cessation of a abstraction by Henry Ford Hospital advisers who approved to evaluate whether hypoallergenic canines accept a lower dog allergen in the house than added canines. Hypoallergenic canines are believed to aftermath beneath acrimony and saliva and afford beneath fur. Contrary to popular belief, so-called hypoallergenic dogs do not have lower household allergen levels than other dogs.

The allegation are to be appear online this ages in the American Journal of Rhinology and Allergy.

"Based on antecedent abhorrence studies conducted actuality at Henry Ford, acknowledgement to a dog aboriginal in activity provides aegis adjoin dog abhorrence development. But the abstraction that you can buy a assertive brand of dog and anticipate it will account beneath abhorrence issues for a being already dog-allergic is not borne out by our study."

"We start no correct base to the affirmation hypoallergenic canines accept beneath allergen," says Christine Cole Johnson, Ph.D., MPH, armchair of Henry Ford's Department of Public Health Sciences and chief columnist of the study.

This is believed to be the aboriginal time advisers abstinent ecology allergen associated with hypoallergenic canines. Antecedent studies analyzed beard samples from alone a scattering of canines in a kid cardinal of breeds.

Henry Ford advisers analyzed dust samples calm from 173 homes ages afterwards a bairn was brought home. The dust samples were calm from the carpeting or attic in the baby's bedchamber and analyzed for the dog allergen Can f one. Alone homes with dog were complex in the study. Sixty dog breeds were complex in the study, 11 of which are advised hypoallergenic canines.

Researchers start that the schemes yielded no cogent differences in allergen levels amid hypoallergenic canines and non-hypoallergenic canines. In homes area the dog was not accustomed in the baby's bedroom, the allergen akin for hypoallergenic canines was not very college compared to allergen levels of non-hypoallergenic canines.

Based on available web armpit claims of hypoallergenic breeds, canines were classified as hypoallergenic application of "schemes" based on their brand for comparing allergen levels. Technique A compared blood hypoallergenic canines to blood non-hypoallergenic dogs; Technique B compared blood and alloyed brand canines with at atomic hypoallergenic ancestor to blood non-hypoallergenic dogs; Technique C compared blood and alloyed brand canines with at atomic hypoallergenic ancestor to blood and alloyed brand canines with no accepted hypoallergenic component; Technique D compared alone blood canines articular as hypoallergenic by the American Kennel Club to all added canines.

While advisers accustomed limitations in their abstraction -- the bulk of time the dog spent in the baby's bedchamber was not recorded and the admeasurement of its sample did not acquiesce stunning at specific breeds -- they say parents ought to not await on dog breeds classified as hypoallergenic.

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