can you get asthma for dogs
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9/27/09 11:11pm
Asthma is not a disease you can get from dogs. Asthma is an autoimmune disease and no one knows for sure exactly what causes it, however there are theories. What we do know is that asthma is a disease where your immune system recognizes things that are harmless (such as dog dander) to most people as dangers, and develops a response to those things. That response thus results in an allergic reaction and an asthma attack. So, in that sense, a dog can be an asthma trigger, but it does not cause one to develop asthma.
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