Owning a dog can help protect children from asthma, scientists have found. But visiting a farm offers considerably more benefits apparently.
Youngsters who were taken to farmyards or petting zoos within the first year of their life were 52 percent less likely to have developed asthma by the age of six. Owning a dog confers a 13 per cent reduction apparently.
Farms could soon be marketing themselves as a kind of health facility for toddlers if all this new research from Sweden pans out.
