I knew it! Cleanliness leads to disease

[limey]

Originally posted by ladysycamore


Hmm..not good news for me. I *have* to be as clean as possible because of the peritoneal dialysis that I am on.

As I understand it, these studies are about the environment people grow up in, rather than the ones they live in as adults. I think your autoimmune system is configured early in life. There have been studies here (in Europe, or UK, can't remember which) which seem to show that asthma is more prevalent now for the same sorts of reasons [wheeze].