Household cleaning does not harm the child's health

Parents do not abandon a mop and a vacuum cleaner in order to strengthen the immunity of children. Scientists have refuted the popular myth that the sterile clean house is harmful to the child's body.

Many well-known scholars in recent years, were calling for parents to allow their children to climb trees, run through the muddy streets and breathing household dust. This is justified by the fact that the growing and developing organism thus subjected to constant moderate attacks of bacteria, which the immune system is fighting. And the more of these battles were, the more strengthens the immune system of the child. These children are allegedly rarely faced with asthma and allergies.

So much so that some of the most progressive moms and dads opt out house cleaning . And for many of these scientific advice it became a wonderful excuse for laziness. What often get out of the apartment, if it is "bad" for Child Health ? Let them he grows hardened and resistant to various microbes.

Microbiologists from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine reviewed the scientific research in this area over the past 20 years. They came to the conclusion that the theory of harm house cleaning   to Child Health   not supported by any facts. Consequently, parents still have to take up the mop and a vacuum cleaner.

"The allegation that the constant contact with a variety of microbes is critical for the regulation of the human immune system does not even doubt, - says Professor Emeritus Sally Bloomfield. - But the idea that children are less likely to get infections because of the sterile purity of home, then much more likely to suffer from asthma and other allergies is untenable. "

Healthy Child

Go back to the main page