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Killing 99% of everything is not very good if you have young children. It can lead to allergies, if their immune system can't train on harmless bacteria.
by Double_a_92 8y ago
Killing 99% of everything is not very good if you have young children. It can lead to allergies, if their immune system can't train on harmless bacteria.
- neuronic 8y agoThat's nothing but a hypothesis. It might very well be the case but it isn't proven at all. So stop spreading it as if it were fact. So sick of bullshitism on the Internet.
- pbhjpbhj 8y agoSurely bullshit is something that's clearly false?
- neuronic 8y agoImplying that the hygiene hypothesis is a fact is clearly false.
- slfnflctd 8y agoWell, there is this research published last year (it's about asthma, though, not allergies as far as I can tell): https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/infant-exposure-pet-pest-allergens-may-reduce-asthma-risk https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/infant-...
- manmal 8y agoI actually started the routine because we had a lot of black mold in the air (everytime food spoiled somewhere hidden [which happens a lot with kids], it went all black immediately), which seems to be gone now—spoiled food does not go black anymore. Since black mold (aflatoxin) can cause liver cancer and other bad diseases, I'd rather keep that down and risk allergies.