Could sucking on your baby’s pacifier reduce their risk of developing asthma and allergies? According to a new study, it just might. In a study released Friday by the Henry Ford Health System in ...

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(Reuters Health) - Parents who pop a pacifier into their mouth to clean it, rather than washing it with soap and water, may be unknowingly reducing their infant's risk of allergies, new research ...

As a woman without kids, I gag at the thought of a parent sticking their child’s pacifier into their own mouth to clean it. But a new study has found there’s actual health-promoting merit to the ...

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No, no, not the binky!! That will be many an exhausted parent's first reaction at the news that researchers have found striking levels of contamination with a wide variety of scary germs on some used ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- Conventional wisdom has been to clean a baby's pacifier using soap and water. But new research shows another method -- that's somewhat unconventional -- could have unexpected ...

That old-fashioned way of cleaning your baby’s pacifier with your own saliva could transfer germs that actually help boost the infant’s immune system and stave off allergies, according to a recent ...

That word "microbiome" — describing the collection of bacteria that live in and on our bodies — keeps popping up. This time, researchers say that children whose parents clean their pacifiers by ...