Your Immune System 'Remembers' Microbes It's Never Fought Before, New Study Says

There are a lot of indicators that hyper-cleanliness during pregnancy may be causing the increase in allergies and auto-immune disorders. My mother is a nurse, so she was constantly washing her hands and using alcohol wipes and my brother, sister and I all have severe asthma, eczema and allergies, though neither of my parents or their siblings/parents do.

Time to get dirty, America.

I have believed for most of my life that you have to watch these "clean" ideas closely.

Yes it is important to wash your hands before you eat, but soap is enough. The same is true if are working around someone that is sick and spreading germs about.

But to try to live in a "pure clean" world is just not going to work, we did not evolve in that world and neither did the germs.

It has long been known that country kids exposes to far greater amounts of different germs when young have less allergies then the "modern city kid".

It is rare that we are born with immunity a give bug. We are born with the tools to become immune, but only if we play by the rules of nature, and are exposed to the "good guys", and even a few of the sort of bad guys.

But there is something people forget about life. Life will fill every spot possible.

If you look at any given surface it is full of life (germs, and such). If you destroy everything there, it will soon be replaced, but you do not get to pick what replaces what was there. On top of that say you use something that kills 99.9% of the germs. Sounds very impressive, but it means that you left 1 in 1000. And when you are dealing with millions if not billions of germs, you have in fact left quite a few. BUT what did you leave? The ones that are easy to kill? No! The ones that are hard to kill. Now think about the really nasty bugs, are they almost by definition hard to kill?

So what you just did is cleared out a big spot, left the hard to kill, and given the speed of reproduction of germs, you just gave the nasty germs a great head start.

People should really rethink the way the do things.

So the more you are exposed to certain bacterias will help you fight off others. Thats pretty interesting. It explains how babies and toddlers get sick easily, they aren't exposed to that many bacterias.

I don't know how this relates to any of this but... a few years ago my wife went on this purell kick. We had bottles of it in almost every room and she would 'order' my kids and I to use it regularly... or else!! Well we did for a good year or so. I stopped using it regularly after that first year and the kids too shortly after that stopped using it... regularly. Now my wife still carries a small bottle of it in her purse for the grocery store and places like that but, overall we hardly use it anymore. OK, now to my point.... my family as a whole was never sicker in our lives than those two or so years of heavy antibacterial use! Seemed like someone in the house always had a flu or a cold or a sinus infection or some other such illness.

I have another short tale to tell to help support this article... I have been a construction worker most of my life.. and there are many 'sayings' by the old timers in the business... such as when the dust and dirt is flying around and the young guys run for the masks... while the old guys take deep breaths and say, 'ah yeah.... sticks to your ribs, makes you strong!" Or when you cut yourself and they tell you to stick your bleeding finger in the wet concrete to seal the wound and disinfect it! Yeah sounds crazy.. but these old guys are never sick a day in their life. I would like to see a study of how many sick days non-union construction workers take as opposed to the general population. Cuz if youre not following osha standards, as a construction worker, you pretty much eat dirt and mold and so much crap every day.... Just sayin...

Today's magic is tomorrow's technology.

Nevertheless, GGenua, what are those 'old-timers' are most known for is their toughness. There's a of sickness they don't show. You can't see inside their bodies and they don't let you see everything going on inside their head, much like my 83 year old father.
From shipyards to heavy machine shops and smoking for 40 years, he's fought with emphysema since 1971, STILL refuses to use supplemental oxygen and is not bedridden. He's slowed down in the past few years but lives life on his terms - just like the 'old timers' you refer to.
Just because you don't 'see' it doesn't mean they ain't feeling it!
And as tough as you may be, you aint them. You didn't live their lives.

And PVC cement work great on cuts, too. Take it from an electrician. ;)

Octyl or n-butyl cyanoacrylates work better for sealing cuts and are readily available. I would recommend avoiding things with Cyclohexanone such as PVC cement as it can be toxic. Take it from a doctor ;)