This is PediCast.

Welcome to Pediacast, a pediatric podcast for parents.

And now, direct from the campus of nationwide children's, here is your host, Dr. Mike.

Hello, everyone, and welcome. Once again to PDACast.

It's a pediatric podcast for moms and dads.

This is Dr. Mike, coming to you from the campus of nationwide children's hospital.

We're in Columbus, Ohio.

It is episode 374 for April 26th, 2017.

We're calling this one flame retardants, throwing injuries, and Alice in Wonderland.

Ah, yeah, what's that going to be about?

Welcome to the program.

I do have a full show for you this week.

We're going to include some news parents can use, also an interview with pediatric experts,

and some answers to listener questions, including Alice in Wonderland.

So I'd better make the intro quick this week and get to the point so we can get right into the meat of the program,

which is going to cover more than the topics I mentioned in the title, including in our first segment,

which will be pediatric news.

Pets could living with a pet be related to the development of environmental allergies, seasonal allergies, and obesity.

And if so, what's the relationship?

So if you have a pet, are you more likely to have those things, or less likely, or maybe more likely for one

and less likely for the other? And when is the best or worst time to own a pet? And which

pets are we talking about? That one I'll answer now. It's mostly dogs, at least in a 70% of the

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