Comments on: Music to their ears!

By: Angela in Canada

Angela in Canada — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:07:44 +0000

yay now you’re talking. My eldest used to love making mud pies in the garden – and he even used to add worms, which he told me was the spaghetti topping!
He’s probably the healthiest kid I know now.
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By: Angela in Canada

Angela in Canada — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:06:05 +0000

Yes I agree – I never used to get sick before I had kids – which are little germ factories in themselves.
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By: Angela in Canada

Angela in Canada — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:05:08 +0000

By the way I discovered that hand sanitizer really does a dandy job of removing permanent marker from counter tops. Hhmm imagine what it is doing to your skin?
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By: Clinically Clueless

Clinically Clueless — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:29:35 +0000

The “germs” are actually adapting to the cleansers especially in using hand santitizers and antibiotics.
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By: Clinically Clueless

Clinically Clueless — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:28:11 +0000

I too have heard of studies that say that exposure to dirt increases the immune system when we are children.
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By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:56:14 +0000

A bit of soil doesn’t do anyone any harm in my book – helps the old immune system kick in, that and drinking perfume made from flowers!

By: Mighty Morgan

Mighty Morgan — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:45:54 +0000

If we were 100% germ free, we would never develop I any type of resistance would we?????
I think and I emphasize the word think, because this is only my opinion…..germs are good to a certain degree…I was raised when the emphasis wasn’t as strong as it may be today and I honestly never, ever, ever get sick…maybe once a year at most and it’s very short at that…maybe my immunity is just good or maybe it was all the exposure as a little kid…..time will probably tell!
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By: Purple13

Purple13 — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:46:10 +0000

Either we’re getting cleaner or the germs are getting more resistant – or is it just a clever marketing ploy to part us with thousands of pounds on surface cleaners and hand sprays?

As someone who had a real obsessive compulsion with washing their hands – even to the point of not eating a ice cream cone at the seaside because i’d walked along the promenade holding the hand rail (told you it was obsessive)…. I do struggle to ignore dirt in general.

However, as a kid we were always down the farm fields in our playtime, making camps in dubious ditches and generally mucky and loving it.
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By: Angela in Canada

Angela in Canada — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:53:54 +0000

yes but it does make sense when you think all vaccines are based on the same premise – exposure to the harmful element.
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By: O'DB

O'DB — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:18:09 +0000

AiC – interesting post.

I’d heard of some research suggesting similar, i.e. exposure to dirt/grime/allergens keeps the immune system ticking over; the corollary being that sterility, over-cleanliness avoids these exposures resulting in an immune system that has few immune response battles & becomes overly sensitive to relatively normal levels allergens – hence the rise in child allergies. It’s an interesting theory, though from my brief reading seems like the jury’s still out.