Comments on: Let kids get dirty. It’s good for them

By: jeni

jeni — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 21:10:04 +0000

sounds great — except when your kid is at a very high risk of infective endocarditis.

“Relatively speaking, humans only recently have lived in such hyper-hygienic environments, he stresses”

Relatively speaking, my daughter would have died at 30 hours old until only recently. I stress.

Some of us are germ-phobes to save lives.

By: Steph

Steph — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 20:22:48 +0000

This article actually makes me feel better – so many times as a mom, you feel you have to clean everything and sanitize it all after one child has a cold. With four, that’s basically impossible!

So hopefully this will help moms everywhere realize that sometimes its best not to try to do it all…

By: Stephen W. O'Driscoll

Stephen W. O'Driscoll — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:11:33 +0000

Are children kept in a super-hygenic environment also deprived of chances to engage in strenious exercise? Parents who are terrified their children will “get” something would probably keep their kids inside and avoid contact with other children. This could result in obese children who only play video games.

By: shashank vaid

shashank vaid — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:56:50 +0000

great work.

is filth good? well, maybe, sometimes!

it is interesting to note that resistance to disease in certain rather poor communities in parts of asia and africa is much higher than in parts of the developed world.

best,