As promised, I am finally reading magazines again. I finished reading my Canadian Living June 2010 issue and started on my Today's Parent June 2010 issue. Within a few pages I found an article that confirms everything I've been saying for years - using excessive anti-bacterial soaps sprays and sanitizer just makes you sick. I'm a big advocate of playing in the dirt, not worrying about a little cat hair around the house, some dust.....basically not making your house and life sterile. My house has 3 cats 2 children and one husband and no lysol sprays.
Here's the article:
Playing in the muck like little piggies just might make kids healthier. Researchers studied piglets raised out doors, indoors and in solation, where they were given daily doses of antibiotics. Turns out the dirtier the pigs, the more healthy bacteria they had: 90 percent of the gut bacteria in the outdoor group were of the type that, among other things, is thought to help fend off food-borne infections like E. coli. The indoor and antibiotic-fed pigs had "good bacteria" levels of roughly 70 percent and 50 percent, respectively. Plus, the pristine pigs, were thought to be more allergy prone. Hey kids, time to make mud pies!
Wendy Haaf, June 2010 Today's Parent
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