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Introducing "good bacteria" into your home may help prevent your children from developing childhood illnesses like asthma, a researcher said.

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... Using a household probiotic may help children get exposed to microbes that will allow their immune systems to build up defenses, hopefully preventing them from developing allergies and asthma, according to a new book titled Inside OUT: Human Health and the Air-Conditioning Era and written by Elizabeth McCormick.

McCormick is an assistant professor of architecture and building technology at the University of North Carolina' at Charlotte's School of Architecture and specializes in healthy and climatically sensitive building-design strategies. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-03-28 03:41 PM | Reply

I'd like to see a peer-reviewed paper on this topic before I buy what he is selling...


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-03-28 03:42 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I'm pretty sure my place is fine. I draw the line at rodents and insects that I can see, but I'm sure I'm outnumbered at least 10 to 1 by microbes.

#3 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-03-28 03:45 PM | Reply

I believe the statistic is humans, at least in the modern world, spend 90% of their life in what's called the "built environment." Your house, your office, your car, your Circle K. Even when I go for a walk around the block, it's still a far cry from what nature would look like without us here. There wouldn't be all these ornamental shrubs and flowering trees and lawns and sidewalks, for example.

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-03-28 03:54 PM | Reply

I would love some scientist to come to my place and pronounce it "too clean." I would probably have a plaque created comemorating that scientific evaluation to hang on my wall that I could point to whenever my housekeeping critics drop by!

#5 | Posted by danni at 2024-03-28 04:17 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Have the kids eat dirt, ffs.

#6 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-03-30 10:55 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

The hygiene hypothesis isn't new.

I've seen some interesting studies presented at conferences allergy and autoimmune disease rates in Amish communities compared to the communities that surround them.

Even went so far as to sample the environments and compare the bacterial populations in various households.

I don't think seeding your home with probiotics is the way to go. Probiotics have a poor track record when we consume them, they're probably an even bigger waste of money spraying them around your home.

It's simple. You don't have to Lysol everything. You don't have to bleach everything. You don't have to obsessively wash/sanitize your hands with antibacterial soaps. The only times you really need to do that is after you go to the bathroom and while cooking.

#7 | Posted by jpw at 2024-03-30 11:35 AM | Reply

Oh, and go outside. Get dirty. Have some fun.

#8 | Posted by jpw at 2024-03-30 11:36 AM | Reply

I'd like to see a peer-reviewed paper on this topic before I buy what he is selling...

This is known as the hygene hypothesis.

This is a meta study, but interesting.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Just from my own experience, people in the US are obsessed with "cleanliness". To the point of sterile environment. I wonder how COVID will also affect the children.

#9 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-03-30 11:57 PM | Reply

This seems similar. Making the case that "farm dust" specifically is protective. Though, definitely possible they are talking about the same bacteria.

#10 | Posted by gtbritishskull at 2024-03-31 12:21 AM | Reply

Rolling around in piles of leaves has got to be good for you.

#11 | Posted by grumpy_too at 2024-03-31 03:33 AM | Reply

Yeah I'm not too worried about my home being too clean.

Proof I have three kids who made it to adulthood the oldest is a late millennial early Z depending on definitions, the two younger are Z. While their co-workers call out constantly they almost never get sick and when they do they are usually over it in 24 hours. The oldest is the only one that got Covid and the fever broke in less than 48 hours and the at home test came back negative later that day.

We've never worried much about cleaning everything with bleach or Lysol and good old fashioned Dove soap will get your hands clean. They all also spent a good hunk of childhood outside. We are lucky as they didn't grow up in the smart phone era so going outside to play was still fun. Basically my kids got a childhood still very like mine back in the 70's and 80's before safety was invented.

#12 | Posted by TaoWarrior at 2024-03-31 08:03 AM | Reply

Europeans used to live under the same roof as their animals for centuries... eventually, they caught enough diseases from the animals and those that survived gained immunity. They then went on to distant shores to spread the diseases they had immunity to... thereby conquering the world... while claiming gawd was on their side.

dirty work it was...

#13 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2024-03-31 08:14 AM | Reply

Our boys spend 99.9% of their time barefoot. That should do the trick.

#14 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2024-03-31 09:03 AM | Reply

Just make sure they're up to date on their tetanus shots.

#15 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-03-31 08:49 PM | Reply

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