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Keeping Children Safe Around Pets and Other Animals
Healthy Children
English - June 22, 2021 05:00 - 9.37 MB - ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsHealth & Fitness american academy pediatrics aap healthychildren org healthy children melanie cole Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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A new dog or other family pet has brought so much joy to uprooted lives this pandemic. But with increased numbers of pet adoptions come more opportunities for bites, scratches, and other dog or pet woes.
Dr. Alison Tothy is back on the show, she is a pediatric emergency medicine physician and a spokesperson for the AAP, and says dog bites have increased with kids being home more this past year.
She tells us about this strange side effect of the pandemic, dealing with animal fears, allergies, and deciding as a family when to get a pet.