Living with Pets May Protect Infants from Allergies
After parents give birth to a baby, they might start to think that they should let their dog and cat stay or throw away those domestic animals due to new born child may be allergic to them; Fortunately, Amanda Gardner has illustrated this fact in her article “Living with Pet May Protect Infants from Allergies,” (Health.com, June 13,2011.), that children who live with dogs and cats before the first year of their life have less chance to become allergic to dogs and cats than children who reside in a house without pets. Although Gardner makes her point easy for everyone to read and understand, the evidences that support her idea are inadequate. Gardner demonstrates the issue of pet allergies and infants that babies who live with dogs and cats have smaller chance to develop pets allergies than babies who is housed in household without cats and dogs because the toddlers’ immune system has been used earlier since they were young; however, being close to those animals after one year old may not have any effect. In addition, there is no evidence to support that dogs and cats create negative impact on newborn children. Despite her intriguing topic, Gardner uses parentheses to define word and hyperlink that brings readers to related topic. She gives a definition of a difficult term like “immune-system proteins” as “antibodies” by using parentheses; as well when she brings up one topic, she has placed hyperlink that refer to another issue. For example, after the sentence “…,which indicates that timing may be everything when it comes to preventing allergies.”, there is a hyperlink, “Health.com: 15 hypoallergenic dogs and cats”, that is connected to the subject.
Furthermore Gardner has enough evidences to claim that the topic is trusting; She does not only furnish the report with research study, but she also provides expert’s opinion in her article. However, she does not clarify her detail