Allergy Cases - Can Becoming Too Clean Be Harmful For Our Immune System?

By Darren White

We've always been taught that keeping clean is vital to our health. However, recent discoveries are about to smash our old beliefs. Is there a connection between the growing number of allergies and our endless pursuit of a germ-free household?

On the planet we live in, there can be no avoiding certain allergens such as smog and filth, and the larger our metropolitan areas and human population, the rather more serious it is going to become. Each day, one can find brand new industrial facilities appearing throughout our metropolitan areas and vehicle numbers are escalating, so this only increases the amount of air-borne pollutants in our once clean air.

Regardless, our bodies are made to deal with dirt and germs, it's normal. Having constant exposure to these things gives the anti-bodies present in us a chance to develop a resistance to future encounters that might be life-threatening.

Figures illustrate that on a yearly basis, the number of youngsters who suffer from many types of hypersensitivity is certainly going up, tremendously.

The results show that the majority of children who develop severe allergies and asthma tend to belong to smaller families with no more than 2 kids. It is a theory that the more kids there are in a family, the less protective parents become and these kids develop stronger immunities as a result.

Additionally it is a theory today, that antibiotics given to newborns are also related to the increase in numbers of children who develop allergies as well as respiratory complications such as asthma later on in life.

Because of all this new data that has been found, the health authorities are starting to question whether they have been sending the right messages to the public.

Maybe we should learn to worry less about germs and bacteria because the harder we strive to keep our families free from dirt and germs, the more harm we do in the long run (or so it seems). Instead, we should just kids be kids, because even if they get sick once in a while, it is normal and their immune systems are learning a valuable lesson concerning the germ-filled environment we live in. - 32378

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