We often think that when we care about our health we are more protected from diseases.
That when we pay attention on our hygiene on a very strict way, our body is better protected.
But this popular "rumour" is it true?
It is what we are going to try to elucidate in this article.
First of all : why we had to obey our mother who said to us when we were a child:
-" wash your hands or you’ll be sick !"
-no, don't put that in your mouth it is dirty and full of germs!
-do not hang around your teddy , later you will sleep with it !!!!
-do not make that, it is dirty!
- etc.. … "
In fact our mother wasn’t totally wrong.
to wash himself regulary the body and the hands protects us from diseases due to germs,
(and thanks to the increase of the hygiene, numerous diseases disappeared in our contry.)
But what our mom ignored, was that we weren’t completely wrong to play in the mud, to eat several times improper things, and indeed take our teddy everywhere and sleep with it during the night,
Our immune system is not active when we are a child of a few months.
When we put itself in the contact of pathogenic agents we develop it.
When our body is contaminated for the very fisrt time by a bacterium, the immune system of the child will be forced to react and develop itself.
It’s like varicella : in the contact of our friends, we catch it when we are young, our body fights against it once, and then we can’t catch it again.
I am going to show you some examples which held attention of the scientists:
For the first example, numerous European studies showed that children who have grown in the farm are less sensitive to the asthma, to the hay fever and other allergies than the children living in a different environment.
We can also quote the example of the to much frequent wash of hands:
in fact, on our skin there are bacteria of the family of staphylococci (actually quite harmless for us) which are going to be eradicated by a ?too? frequent wash of hands.
But, according to doctor Richard Gallo, researcher in medicine in San Diego, these bacteria would block certain inflammations of the skin.
They produce a substance which block the cells on skin from sending a signal of infection when we are in touch with bacteria of absolutely nothing. Bacteria of absolutely nothing ? ca veut dire quoi ici ?
(the article which actually speaks better about it )
These two examples show us that a too little exhibition to the pathogenic agents could prevent our immune system from developing normally when we are children.
But this doesn't explain everything.
We can retain of this article that too much overprotection doesn't prevent us from getting sick.
Elise.C
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