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Sucking on your kid’s pacifier: good idea or gross?

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Toddlers are less likely to have asthma and itchy rashes if their parents ”cleaned” their pacifiers by sucking on them when the kids were infants, a small new study suggests.

The findings don’t prove that technique protects kids against asthma, eczema or other allergies. But researchers said it’s possible the transfer of mouth microbes from parents to baby may help boost the bacterial diversity of the young child’s digestive system and foster immunity.

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