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Home » News » Pets Keep us Healthy & What They Can Do For Us In Our Daily Lives

Pets Keep us Healthy & What They Can Do For Us In Our Daily Lives

Published by Louise van Wezel-Dore On 24/07/2017

James Liddell writes: My two Siamese cats are the loves of my life, bringing beauty and song – they are very vocal! They absolutely rule my household. Every day they wait to greet me at the door when I arrive from work. I cannot imagine a world without animals. They were created to buffer our daily stress and best of all they love us unconditionally.

Nature can be viewed as a huge pharmacy; it contains thousands of components essential to man’s survival. Therefore, the animal world is in a way part of our survival kit. Used since the nineteenth century, leeches are now employed in surgery because of the anticoagulant and anti-inflammatory properties of their saliva. The active elements of the Brazilian Viper’s venom have been synthesized into a medication that controls blood pressure. Scorpion venom is used in research on brain tumours. Sharks contribute to studies of muscle degeneration and certain forms of cancer. Bee honey improves human health by targeting and attacking certain microbes in our organism. One of only two poisonous lizards on earth, the Gila Monster secretes a substance in its venom that may help treat diabetes. Taken from Zoo Granby.

Animals are there to support us in this lifetime and it has been proven scientifically that animals and especially our furry friends have numerous health benefits:

  • Visits with a therapy dog helps heart and lung function by lowering pressures, diminishing release of harmful hormones and decreases anxiety with hospitalized heart failure patients (Cole, 2005).
  • Fish tanks with brightly coloured fish may curtail disruptive behaviour and improve eating habits of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease (Beck, 2002).
  • The presence of a therapy dog can lower behaviour distress in children during a physical examination at a doctor’s office and may be useful in a variety of healthcare settings to decrease procedure-induced distress in children (Nagengast, 1997 Hansen, 1999).
  • The presence of a dog during dental procedures can reduce the stress of children who are distressed about coming to the dentist (Havener, 2001).
  • Animal-assisted therapy can effectively reduce the loneliness of residents in long-term care facilities (Banks, 2002).
  • People with borderline hypertension experienced lower blood pressure on days they took their dogs to work (Allen, K. 2001).
  • Seniors who own dogs go to the doctor less than those who do not do. In a study of 100 senior patients, even the most highly stressed dog owners in the study have 21 percent fewer physician’s contacts than non-dog owners (Siegel, 1990).
  • Activities of daily living (ADL) level of seniors who did not currently own pets deteriorated more on average than that of respondents who currently owned pets (Raina, 1999).
  • Seniors who own pets coped better with stress life events without entering the healthcare system.

Article written by:   James Liddell
(Contact James Liddell (021-6120202) info@lifestyleclinic.co.za – He has been in Health care for 25 yrs.

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