In a 1999 study in the Journal of Allergy and ClinicalImmunology, washing dogs with allergen-reducing shampoo for five minutes cut the dogs' allergen levels by about 85 percent.
So far, safety studies have suggested it is not toxic, but the latest research, published in the Journal of Allergy and ClinicalImmunology, studied the effect on the lungs and breathing.
The 2008 study of more than 5, 000 children in each country in the Journal of Allergy ClinicalImmunology found the rate of peanut allergies among the U.K. children was 10 times that of those in Israel.