I have read sooooo many times that we have all the allergies we have because we are “too clean.” One article, I read years ago claimed that daily hair washing removed all important pollens and allergens and by not having constant exposure (from allergens clinging to your hair) we make ourselves allergic. Who knows...
I’ll just continue taking my “stuff.”
Well I’m sure that’s right. I read a book several years ago while doing some research on autoimmune diseases. Allergies are on the lowest end of the spectrum - they are nothing more than an autoimmune response.
Anyway, the book pointed out that a doctor in the early part of the 20th century started experiencing symptoms that were, as we all know now, just basic allergy symptoms but he didn’t really know what they were and he tried to find other people to study with the same problem. Guess what? He could find very, very few people for his study.
Sure wouldn’t have that problem today, would he? I think there’s something to the “too clean” thing. Polio was another thing. A doctor came out with a good book about the polio epidemic and said that polio only happens in wealthy countries like the U.S., Canada, Britain, etc.
Interesting.
yeah, but when i was a kid, in the 70’s, no one had lice and no one had allergies. I hate to say it but if they want to see where the allergies have come from check out the time line. allergies went up in direct proportion to homes becoming smoke free.