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Originally Posted by HarryT
It has been suggested that the massive increase in allergies in children is due to the fact that children in western countries tend to be brought up in overly sterile environments, and so their immune systems don't develop a healthy resistance to all sorts of bugs that children were exposed to when I was a child in the 1960s.
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That is what I tried to say, but your words are somewhat more eloquent on that topic.
My parents sent me to visit children at home in bed, who had various childhood diseases, so I could get it young without the nasty problems that come when adults contract such childhood diseases. That highly beneficial practice was common before immunization therapy (essentially the same thing, in a way), but probably considered "child abuse" (or even "terrorism") these days in some communities.
And with the proven-false link between immunization and autism (a genetic condition) causing such a stir, we may even see the return of polio. But it is especially worrying for folks with compromised immune systems...