Sucking On Your Infant’s Pacifier Could Protect Against Allergies.

There are some things we do as parents that would've grossed us out before we had kids.  But, sucking on their pacifier.  What?

It seems sucking on your infant's pacifier could protect them against allergies. That's according to research reported in USA Today news which says,

while distasteful – maybe literally, depending on where the pacifier's been dropped – could protect infants from developing allergies.

The research presented at a yearly meeting of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology added that it might be because,

 Mothers who clean pacifiers by sucking on them have infants with a lower allergic response.

The study interviewed 128 mothers for just over a year and a half.  Moms were asked how they cleaned the pacifiers.  It seems the moms that spit-cleaned had babies with lower allergic reactions.