How are children growing up in a sterile environment expected to build up their

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cymry3jones

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resistance to germs? Consider that all your sprays and cleaning products only kill 99% of germs. That 1% might kill them. Children need to be exposed to some 'unhygienic' environments, so that they can develop their immunity.
 
that's exactly why I am against vaccinations, a child needs to develop their immune system naturally, Remember the old saying "say no to drugs?" Apparently now it's "give kids drugs." Well, not mine.
 
I think that too many people are in the business of persuading us to be utterly clean: the detergent manufacturers, the pharmaceutical companies, the health visitors, the retailers..... We are made to feel guilty if we do not fight germs with the utmost ardour. I remember with gratitude the time when our first baby was ill and a friend who was a surgeon and a father of four came round to see what he could do to help. When he asked for a spoon to administer some medicament or other I panicked because you were supposed to sterilise everything entering the baby's mouth for half an hour beforehand. He gave me a strange look, waved the spoon about in the sterilising liquid for about five seconds, and then popped it in my son's mouth. I got the message!
 
Yes I think than being exposed to germs etc, help your body build up immunity to lots of things ,, As kids in the 1930's we were exposed to lots of things , Childhood illnesses like mumps, measles, chicken pox were usual and most kids got them .. Scarlet fever and diphtheria were the ones to be avoided .. Lots of things done then that would be taboo today ,, food in open sacks , things like flour, rice, dried vegetables , porridge oats served with a scoop into paper bags . but the flies would be all around them .. Also big blocks of sticky dates that were out in front of greengrocers , cut lumps off with a knife for customers,, again flies all over the block .. .. Meat hung up outside the butchers shop on rails again flies , dust etc ,, but we didn't seem to come to any harm .. All this sterility seems to breed a fragile race of people who succumb to everything going ,, Also re swine flu now prevalent ,, mainly younger people who get it ,,, The older ones seem to have some resistance created by viruses they have run into many years ago ,,
 
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