Skin ship with pets may cause death, such as "sleeping together" or "kissing"

In addition to indirect health benefits such as losing feeling of loneliness by keeping pets and increasing opportunities to exercise and exercise, skinship with a pet is said to have effects of lowering blood pressure and cholesterol, the heart The medical value of pets for disease patients and the elderly has been studied for over 30 years.

However, pets may harm their owner's health. From parasitesPlagueUp to the owner owing to skinship with petsZoonotic infectionIt may be infected with some cases, there are deaths in some cases. Especially, experts are warning that there are many infections caused by licking and kissing with pets, having licked the face and body with perori, "The owner should close out the pet at least from the bed."

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With the spreading of the idea that "pet is a member of family", the number of owners who have a habit of sleeping in bed with pets also increases, which seems to be a serious risk to owner's health. Specialize in zoonos infectionUniversity of California, DavisProfessor Bruno Chomel of the Department of Veterinary Medicine,America Disease Control CenterIssuedEmerging Infectious DiseasesI am warning with a paper to be published in the magazine next month issue.

"While sleeping with a pet is becoming very common, there are also risks associated with it, which is not something that happens frequently, but it can also be a serious situation for young children and those with immune deficiency "We wanted to raise attention to people," Professor Chomel says.


According to the survey, 53% of dog owners consider the dog "a member of the family" in the United States, 56% of which seem to have a dormitory with dogs. Not only small dogs but also 41% middle dogs, about 30% are large dogs. In addition, cats are said to have exceeded the number of owners, the percentage of owners who lie down as well as dogs, and it seems that cases are more likely to be mediated by cats than diseases mediated by dogs.

As representative of zoon-based zoonosis infections,Bartonella henselaeBy bacteriaCat scratch diseasethere is. In the United States it is said that more than 20,000 people will be infected in the year, and many of the infected children are hung, bitten or bitten by cats, but after the cat walks on the kitchen table or dining table, it does not disinfect It seems that it may be infected just by cooking and eating to. Besides the swelling of lymph nodes, it may cause fever, and sometimes fatal injuries to the liver, kidney and spleen (clothes).


Putting a pet and lying down brings psychic peace to the owner, but also involves the risk of infection. In recent years a 9-year-old boy in Arizona province was lying with a cat infested with fleasPlagueIn addition to being reported as infected with the dog, it is repeated many times by dogs with dogsMRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus)Cases of California's forty-age couple who were infected with it are not attached. This couple's dog had a habit of going to bed and sleep in a couple's bed at night, he seems to have licked his owner's face frequently.

Sleeping with a pet leads to more pet licks. Especially when you are injured, it seems better to avoid lying down with your pet. Even a person who washes and disinfects pets as soon as they are licked while they are awake may be very dangerous to be able to lick a wound before they are noticed while they are sleeping. After licking the back of the foot and the toes of the toes together with the cat lying together, a woman who died of septic shock and kidney failure and a palm abrasion were killed by a German Shepherd puppy and then died due to infection An example of a 44-year old man has also been reported.

In addition to direct contact with pets, pet food seems to cause human diseases as well. Children touched a dry pet food containing contaminated meat, then put their hands in their mouths or eat their own pet food themselves,SalmonellaA case has also been reported that infectious diseases have occurred to a large extent.

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The risk of getting sick due to intimate relationship with pet exists in reality. However, most diseases that infect humans from pets can be discovered and removed by routine screening by veterinarians. By keeping the pet healthy, the health of the owner is also protected. Professors Chomel and colleagues raised the following countermeasures to prevent infection from pets to owners.

◆ Owner, especially young children and immunocompromised persons, should not refrain from sleeping with pets or kissing habitually.

◆ Let's immediately wash the parts licked with pet with water and soap. Especially when there is a wound, you should wash it instantly.

◆ Periodically parasiticize, undergo a checkup by a veterinarian, keep a state where there are no parasites in your pet. Attention should be paid especially to fleas.

◆ For kittens and puppies, within a few weeks after birthTapewormYaFlukeLet's administer parasitic anthelminthics such as. Ideally it should be administered to the late pregnant mother before cats and dogs are born if possible. By this, infection by humans causes young children to cause visual impairmentToxocarasiaYou can prevent.

It is an infection from a pet that sometimes dies, but not anyone else will experience it, but serious cases from the pet owner's perspective are very few. If you take precautionary measures based on the advice listed above and you keep in mind the health and hygiene of your pet, the health benefits of living with your pet are likely to outweigh the risk of infection.