Toxocariasis in Eye Dogs: Injury from Pets

Recently, Xiaoyu’s mother discovered a strange thing. When she looked at Xiaoyu’s recent photos, she found that in the photos, the reflection in the pupil of the baby’s right eye was not common red, but yellow and white, like a cat’s eye. Xiaoyu’s mother felt something was wrong more and more, so she hurriedly took Xiaoyu to the hospital. A check of eyesight, only to find that Xiaoyu’s right eye’s eyesight was so poor that she could only see the fingers in front of her. Mother heard the news like a bolt from the blue. Is this what? What the hell is going on? Ophthalmologists carefully examined and tested Xiaoyu and determined that the [culprit] of Xiaoyu’s illness was Toxocara Read More …

Does having pets at home lead to asthma in children?

Bronchial asthma is one of the most common chronic respiratory diseases in children. In recent years, the prevalence rate of asthma in all countries in the world has shown an obvious upward trend. According to incomplete statistics, the prevalence rate of childhood asthma in Beijing rose from 0.78% to 2.06% in the 10 years from 1990 to 2000, an increase of 1.6 times. In 2010, the third national epidemiological survey of urban childhood asthma was carried out in 43 cities in China, and the report pointed out that domestic pets were the unique risk factors for asthma in children ≤ 3 years old [1]. Is it how’s relationship between domestic pets and childhood asthma, whether they should be [close] or Read More …