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Dr Karl (aussie science guy) got all the well-wishers to put their unsanitized finger into his eldest son's mouth on his birth day. Sample size 1, worked OK. h
by cromulent 3y ago
Dr Karl (aussie science guy) got all the well-wishers to put their unsanitized finger into his eldest son's mouth on his birth day. Sample size 1, worked OK.
https://twitter.com/DoctorKarl/status/820944574906368000 https://twitter.com/DoctorKarl/status/820944574906368000
- paulddraper 3y agoCromulent username
- ineedasername 3y agoperfectly so
- Vecr 3y agoYeah, but a baby has transferred IGG through the placenta, and IGA though milk, so for the first six months they are more protected from severe disease (at least for quite a few pathogens their mother has recently encountered). After that, exposing someone to pathogens, especially immune evasive ones like herpesvirus, gets a lot iffier. It's probably safer to only expose a baby/child to their mother's pathogens, as well as various food allergens to try to prevent food allergies from developing.