While staying germ-free can prevent the spread of disease and infections, leading a cleanlier lifestyle may be responsible for an increase in allergies among children.
“It’s called the hygiene hypothesis,” says Marc McMorris, M.D., a pediatric allergist at the University of Michigan Health System. “We’ve developed a cleanlier lifestyle, and our bodies no longer need to fight germs as much as they did in the past. As a result, the immune system has shifted away from fighting infection to developing more allergic tendencies.”
Actually, I think we all learned this from Married... with Children, the episode in which Peg gets the free inhome trainer. She wins the battle of lifestyle change. When he returns to his show, he displays an adverse reaction to Peg's lifestyle. Al sums it up by stating the trainer was too pure and clean, while they were like cockroaches and could survive anything since they had developed the necessary resistances.
And Joanne & I reflect this as well. I'm going to go out on a limb and say I had a little more exposure to the elements growing up. Take a guess who carries around a pack or two of kleenex?
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I think there have been several studies that show having a dog in the house as a child decreases your chances of asthma. That being said, having to deal with dogs AND children is tough. Grew up with dogs my entire life. No asthma. No real allergies until my 30s. Anectdotal evidence is worth the dollar bill it's written on.
I'm just thankful this post was about Al and not Ted.
It's nice that we can all find studies to validate the choices we are inclined to make already. I have seen several reports that indicate that hyper-cleanliness makes you more susceptible to illness, because you never get exposed to the low levels of crud that help you build up resistance to fight off the high-caliber bad stuff.
So let LBA roll around in the dirt, and save a few bucks at the grocery store by walking right on by that super-duper counter cleaner bleach spray.
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