Below is one of many sources saying that killing as many germs as you
can may help CAUSE asthma in children. So, I would like to say "thank
you" for causing my asthma. Your immune system needs something to
attack. Take that all away, and it finds all sorts of ammusing things
to attack that are harmless.
Of course, do kill germs in a hospital. Your system is weak after a
surgery and easily overcome. Likewise kill all germs if you are older
or easily sick. Wash your hands with hot water and soap is also
enough(you don't need to help the bacteria to become resistant!).
Leave those poor germs and bacteria alone before they mutate and kill
us all. Mondays movie of the week, "Killer Bacteria." We caused it
to mutate. Now watch it jump from person to person killing all in
it's path. Better than "The Day After Tomorrow." More dead than the
movie "Category 7: The End of the World." When will we learn to leave
Mother Nature alone.
dipy911
ps: I don't think anyone mentioned the nose wiper that goes
immediately to press the hold/draw buttons.
Nobody knows what causes asthma. A prevailing theory is that you have
an immune system that is supposed to kill germs. If your immune system
doesn't have a lot of germs to kill when you are very young, it starts
attacking things that are not germs, such as pollen, dust, animal
dander and foods. This study shows that children who have the most
older brothers and sisters are the one least likely to suffer from
allergies. Evidently when you have older siblings, you get lots of
infections at a young age from the germs that they bring home from
school, and killing these germs lets your immunity practice on germs,
so it doesn't have to attack everything else. However, before you try
to give your young child an infection, realize that this is just a
theory, has not been proved yet, and may be wrong.
Does a higher number of siblings protect against the development of
allergy and asthma? A review. Journal of Epidemiology and Community
Health, 2002, Vol 56, Iss 3, pp 209-217. W Karmaus, C Botezan. Karmaus
W, Michigan State Univ, Dept Epidemiol, 4660 S Hagadorn Rd, Suite 600,
E Lansing,MI 48823 USA