Abstract
The purpose of this debate is not to argue about pet keeping for pet allergy children, but about children who have not pet allergy but have the other allergic diseases. In real world, we have been providing consultation to patients with asthma and/or atopic eczema who would like to keep pets in spite of their positive sensitization to pet allergens. Some reports of birth cohort studies showed pet keeping in early life stage had protective effects on onset of allergic diseases later on, although many conflicting results from different papers exist. We also discovered that dog keeping in early infancy had not promote atopic dermatitis in school children even in Japan, but I do not always approve pet keeping for any one at this moment.
