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In some Western countries , some households have very clean homes and they go to great length to maintain their homes in tip top conditions.
It may look good but too clean an environment may not be good for your health as it can cause your body's immune system to be weak.
When you grow up in that kind of environment , your immune systems are not strong or developed and if you come into contact with any bacteria's or germs , you will fall sick easily.
We dont live alone in this world.There are alot of microorganisms which inhabit every environment and inside our bodies,unseen by the naked eye.
They are the microbes , bacteria's and viruses.
There are more bacteria's than humans on this Earth and not all the bacteria's are bad.
There are good bacteria's too .The bad bacteria's make us sick ,spoils the food ,body odour and tooth decay while the good bacteria's help us to digest food, produce vitamins and fight against those bad bacteria's
There are some people who bathe and don't use any kind of soap because they believed they will washed away those good as well as bad bacteria's on their skins and they will easily fall sick. Without using any soap , they are still healthy and strong. Though off course not everyone will share that idea.
Most bacteria's are harmless to humans , only those pathogenic bacteria's or disease causing bacteria's like Salmonella and E-Coli which can cause food poisoning or sickness.Food that has been improperly handled and contaminated by those pathogens.
That is why we need to wash our hands often before we eat as we may come into contact with those bacteria's without our knowledge.
With every breathe we take and every mouthful of food we eat or drink, we are allowing those bacteria's to enter our bodies but we are seemingly unaffected by them. Our bodies are immune to them.We house millions of bacteria's on our skin and in our nose, mouth, and gut:
If you have a very clean home or environment, your kids immuned system will not be that good as it will be unused and untested. They can get sick easily when the bad bateria's attacked them.
In the Asian soceity , many food sold by the roadsides are uncovered and unhygenic by the Western standards . The food is left open by the roadside and dust, flies , cockroaches , ants and extra ingredients are added on the food.Yet the people dont seem to have any problems with food poisoning . This is because their immune system is strong and able to kill off those bad bacteria's.
The modern day generation of children seldom play outside or get dirt on their bodies.This means that they are seldom exposed to the many bacteria's and their immune system is weak.
Recently , there has been an outbreak of MRSA ,a form of superbug, which originated from the hospitals and are now found in some homes.
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is an isolate of the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus characterized by antibiotic resistance to all penicillins, including methicillin and other narrow-spectrum β-lactamase-resistant penicillin antibiotics.[1]
MRSA was discovered for the first time in 1961 in the UK, but it is now widespread in the hospital setting.
credit and thanks to
http://www.actionbioscience.org/biodiversity/wassenaar.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRSA
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/healthnews/2007/09/26/clean-mums-risk-kids-health-89520-19848279/
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/healthnews/2007/09/27/mrsa-is-in-our-homes-89520-19854451/
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2007/09/24/new-bug-deadlier-than-mrsa-89520-19836780/
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Mother-to-baby infections - Dr Trisha Macnair
http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/conditions/motherbabyinfections2.shtml
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