Barbara wrote:
> Well, what do you know--finally an explaination for my housekeeping
skills!!!
>  I am just keeping my kids' environment an "allergy prevention program".
Now
> I can't wait to call my mom who still tells me about boiling everything my
> brother and I came in contact with ( and we both have horrible
allergies!).

Again, I don't recall where or when, but I did read exerpts from research on
this topic and they found out that washing and cleaning to much can make
children sick.
 We had a study day of the Dutch Lactation Consultants Ass. a couple of
years ago with a (what's the English word for natural health professional?)
who told us: modern (western, people in industrialised countries) people
*wash their children sick*. By ruling out all germs in the normal household
situation and on the child itself the immunesystem is damaged or inactivated
and therefor shows unwanted reactions to normal substances or does not react
at all to germs anymore.
Am I glad not to be very much of a housekeeper :-) My five children are
healthy and not ill often and though they do have a family history of
allergies (my mother in law is a very good housekeeper ...) from their
father's side, they have only very, very mild symptoms like an occasional
sneeze or itch.

Greetings from a healthy-not-so-tidy-family mom,

Gonneke van Veldhuizen, IBCLC, Maaseik, Belgium

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