[sionnsar]

I figure if you’re too clean (anti-bacterial everything) you’ll probably be sicker than someone who allows him/herself to be exposed to illness. At least, that’s how I was raised.

There's speculation that many allergies are due to underworked immune systems. They're correlated the increase in allergies to the increase in wealth and cleanliness in a number of countries around the world.

[Monkey Face]

I believe it. We washed our hands before we ate, and my mother used the same cutting board for meats, vegetables and bread.

We all got colds and once in a while, we’d get the flu, but not too often. The rest of the time, it was the “childhood diseases” (including pertussis when I was two) and we all survived.