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>Professor Greaves suggests that childhood leukaemia, in common with type I diabetes, other autoimmune diseases and allergies... I suspect we will eventually r
by DoubleCribble 8y ago
>Professor Greaves suggests that childhood leukaemia, in common with type I diabetes, other autoimmune diseases and allergies...
I suspect we will eventually realize that an obsession with a sterile household and Anti-Bacterial Everything (TM) has enormous long term health repercussions, particularly for children. After all, a little case of cowpox turned out to be really beneficial for young milk maidens [0].
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowpox#Discovery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowpox#Discovery
- wahern 8y agoIsn't the FDA banning certain anti-bacterial soaps? See https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm517478.htm https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/u... and https://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm378393.htm https://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm378393.h... Hopefully this is still in the works. I like Dial's anti-bacterial foaming soap, but only because it has the best foaming action. All the alternatives at the local stores suck in comparison. I'm too lazy to make my own. It'd be nice if they sold it with the triclosan, but perhaps they'll just put some other non-regulated antibacterial... ... looking at the Amazon images it looks like they did simply switch to a new active antibacterial ingredient. sigh :( UPDATE: New actual active ingredient: Benzalkonium Chloride. See https://www.dialsoap.com/Products/Hand-Soap/Spring-Water-Foaming https://www.dialsoap.com/Products/Hand-Soap/Spring-Water-Foa...