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Originally Posted by zonerboy
My good old Mom (now 92) told us kids we had to eat 5 pounds of dirt before we died. So we played outside, dug in the dirt for worms, caught lizards and frogs. And if our cookie fell on the floor we picked it up and ate it anyway.
Later on during my pediatric rotations in medical school, I discovered that the kids with the most obsessive-compulsive, fastidious about cleanliness Mommies, were the same kids that got the most colds, were first to develop the latest flu of the season. And the same kids who were most prone to asthma and other allergic disorders.
So all you clean freaks out there, get over yourselves.
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YOu are so right. You can't build immunity and be healthy if your body never faces things to build defenses against. Unless your immune system is compromised with chemo or some such thing, you are better off not being too persnickity.
In fact it is better for you to not overdo the germ remover wipes and such.
Thank you kind sir for your wisdom.
I am a clean person but not a wiper offer of carts at stores.