Hey Dean - the thing that annoys me is the pseudo sense of hygiene that manufacturers create around some of their products. A lot of surface cleaners now say that they kill 99.99% of all bacteria. Well great - so what does the chemical that kills the bacteria do to my baby when he decides to lick that surface. This is insane ... we all have bacteria everywhere - including inside our body. Many of which we actually need e.g to digest food.
The other question that comes to mind is - what longterm impact do these chemicals have on the bacteria. Are they getting ever more resistant to the chemicals and will eventually evolve into some powerful bug that we can't actually get rid off anymore? Bacteria breed pretty fast ... so they are evolving a lot quicker than we do ... it's impossible to win the "war against bacteria".
Finally I think it's actually important for babies to have a certain level of exposure to bacteria (and in general "dirt") to build up their immune system. If the whole house is like an operating theatre what happens when they get exposed to all those bugs when they leave the house?
-Stef
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Hey Dean - the thing that
Hey Dean - the thing that annoys me is the pseudo sense of hygiene that manufacturers create around some of their products. A lot of surface cleaners now say that they kill 99.99% of all bacteria. Well great - so what does the chemical that kills the bacteria do to my baby when he decides to lick that surface. This is insane ... we all have bacteria everywhere - including inside our body. Many of which we actually need e.g to digest food.
The other question that comes to mind is - what longterm impact do these chemicals have on the bacteria. Are they getting ever more resistant to the chemicals and will eventually evolve into some powerful bug that we can't actually get rid off anymore? Bacteria breed pretty fast ... so they are evolving a lot quicker than we do ... it's impossible to win the "war against bacteria".
Finally I think it's actually important for babies to have a certain level of exposure to bacteria (and in general "dirt") to build up their immune system. If the whole house is like an operating theatre what happens when they get exposed to all those bugs when they leave the house?
-Stef