Communicate with a dog removes stress and helps fight disease

U.S. scientists have determined that only a few minutes of active communication with a dog on the day can ease the condition of people with heart patients, and perhaps even help their recovery. According to scientists, the company dogs useful person to visit a patient or complete solitude. This medics told at a meeting of American Heart Association in Dallas.

"Dogs are very good comfort. They make people happier, calmer and give them the feeling that they are loved. This is very important, especially when you are scared and feel bad" - said Cathy Cole, a nurse from the Medical Center at the University of California, Los Angeles, led a team of researchers.

Ongoing stress can worsen the condition of the patient, but, according to Cole, until scientific evidence that such measures are getting rid of stress, how to communicate with animals, help, not yet. It is reported Reuters.

The study group Cole found that 12 - minute visit by a volunteer with a dog helped patients with a sick heart and lung dysfunction: their pulmonary pressure decreased ejection harmful hormones declined, and anxiety uleglas.

The team studied the Cole, 76 patients with heart patients - some of them had been established 12 - minute visit by a volunteer with a dog, others - visit volunteer without a dog, the other left alone.

The level of anxiety among those who communicated with a dog, fell by 24 per cent. Among those who visited the volunteer, the level of anxiety decreased by ten percent. The level of anxiety among the remaining alone has not changed.

The level of emissions into the body of stress hormones epinephrine to communicate with dogs dropped by 17 per cent among those who visited the volunteers - at two per cent, and among the "lone" he, in contrast, grew by seven percent.

Pulmonary systolic blood pressure in patients declined by five percent during communicate with dogs, and then declined another five percent. In the other two groups was recorded growth of this indicator.

"These studies suggest that even short-term communication with the dog helps improve mental and psychosocial condition of patients ...", - said Cole.