Does having a dog affect fertility?

Many women like to keep pets, especially dogs, which are often kept as pets. Normally, we don’t pay attention to the impact, but women who want to have children need to pay attention. After all, pets have parasites, so you must pay attention to it when you want to get pregnant. Many women don’t know whether they can keep dogs when they want to get pregnant. Will keeping dogs affect fertility? Let’s take a look at it together below.

For families with dogs, expectant mothers' insistence on keeping dogs can easily cause disagreements within the family - the elderly in the family insist on sending the dogs away, believing that dogs carry bacteria and, most importantly, may infect expectant mothers with Toxoplasma gondii, leading to fetal malformations or even miscarriage; while expectant parents who have always kept dogs believe that keeping dogs does not conflict with pregnancy, and that as long as dogs are raised scientifically, a series of problems can be avoided. In addition, the latest scientific experiments have shown that keeping dogs during pregnancy can greatly reduce the chance of allergies in the baby after birth.

If an expectant mother does not want to be separated from her dog during pregnancy, she must "raise the dog scientifically." Scientific dog raising during pregnancy, as the name suggests, means that relevant examinations should be done during the preparation period and the early pregnancy period. Dogs need to be vaccinated and dewormed, and expectant mothers also need to be checked. This is the "TORCH" examination that women usually go to the hospital for when preparing for pregnancy.

Generally speaking, keeping a dog will not have any impact on human health. However, because dogs, cats and other animals have a large number of parasites, which are difficult to remove even with regular cleaning, it is best not to keep these pets if you intend to have children. Diseases that cause concern include rabies, Lyme disease, and toxoplasmosis in dogs and cats. All dogs should be given rabies vaccinations first to avoid this worry. In canine and feline toxoplasmosis, cats are the definitive hosts of Toxoplasma and dogs are the intermediate hosts, with no reproduction. If a person is infected, they may experience swollen lymph nodes, fever, weakness, difficulty breathing, and cough. Pregnant women may suffer stillbirths, and encephalitis may occasionally be found.

Through the above introduction, we can know that it is best not to keep a dog during pregnancy. After all, pets may have parasites, which are not good for the human body. Especially during pregnancy, women's body resistance will decrease, and they will inevitably be affected by keeping a dog. At the same time, it will also affect the fetus in the belly. It is better not to keep a dog.