In a message dated 1/24/00 3:57:22 PM Central Standard Time,
owner-sanet-mg-digest@ces.ncsu.edu writes:
<<
Excellent question. This theme is something I have wondered about. I read
an article or maybe it was one of those news shows that implicated our over
use of antibacterial cleaning products as a factor in the increased
resistance to antibiotics some diseases have developed. Being a factidious
housekeeper is not the way anyone would discribe me so I am not often
flinging around losts of antibacterial cleaners. We also live on a farm,
that includes animals. My kids have lived around farm animals all their
lives. The last time I took them for a check up the nurse said wow you
haven't been here since your previous check up, how do you stay so healthy?
I said I don't know, but often wondered if it was that we don't live in an
artifically sterile environment. Beth
>>
this reminded me to add a mention of to simple a microecology. in hospitals,
where everything is always being sterilized, there is a great predominance of
robust, virulent, opportunistic pathogens, like mono. and strep. studies have
shown that these bugs dominate the hospital environment. i feel this is not
just because of antibiotics but more because a clean sterile surface will
soon grow bugs, the ones that are strongest and grow fastest on the least
nutriment [the most virulent and opportunistic] will definately dominate
[esp. after repeated iterations]. it has also been shown that the highest
bacteria count on human skin tends to be approx. 20 min. after showering, not
just before [gee there must be experts if there are such studies from so long
past that i can't place them]. monte.
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