Ah, shoot.  My kids are going to be SO healthy!

Lynette, going under with 1 husband, 3 kids, 2 cats and 2 border collies....


> The author of this hypothesis is G A Rook (an immunologist). His paper is
> entitled
>
> Give Us This Day Our Daily Germs. Immunology Today. 19:113-116.
>
> where he postulates that a lack of exposure to disease and dirt in
childhood
> - a practice we all seem to encourage so much in our Western cultures-
> results in an inadequately developed immune system, making us all so much
> more susceptible to infection. This was also reported in a popular science
> magazine (Nature or similar) and was I think called "Let them eat dirt".
Due
> to my abysmal retrieval system for papers I cant find either, however I
cant
> remember him discussing at what stage this should apply, presumably not
> children who are at an age where their immune system is  immature.
>
> Regards
> Cathy Fetherston RM MSC IBCLC
>
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