Caution: Killing Germs May Be Hazardous to Your Health

This gives new meaning to nature vs. nurture. It's neither; its about your microboes! Could explain why identical twins raised apart have such similar cravings.

My daughter is almost 21 years old and when she was a child, "superbugs" were known. Medical advice then was not to give antibiotics automatically with a cold or flu, as had been done, creating the superbugs. I am surprised this is still an issue 20 years later.
While living in Springfield Missouri 12 years ago, I encountered a mother who told her daughter to take one of the antibiotics in the medicine cabinet. I.e., they did not complete their course of antibiotics, also creating a resistant strain of bacteria.

My daughter is almost 21 years old and when she was a child, "superbugs" were known. Medical advice then was not to give antibiotics automatically with a cold or flu, as had been done, creating the superbugs. I am surprised this is still an issue 20 years later.
While living in Springfield Missouri 12 years ago, I encountered a mother who told her daughter to take one of the antibiotics in the medicine cabinet. I.e., they did not complete their course of antibiotics, also creating a resistant strain of bacteria.

My daughter is almost 21 years old and when she was a child, "superbugs" were known. Medical advice then was not to give antibiotics automatically with a cold or flu, as had been done, creating the superbugs. I am surprised this is still an issue 20 years later.
While living in Springfield Missouri 12 years ago, I encountered a mother who told her daughter to take one of the antibiotics in the medicine cabinet. I.e., they did not complete their course of antibiotics, also creating a resistant strain of bacteria.

Oh please. MRSA is something that has been around now and is just as dangerous as the flu. And unless you are a wrestler or football player *and* the locker room is a biohazardous waste area you have no real reason to worry if you just wash your hands once in a while. Simple sanitation can keep you from getting sick. And by the way small children are likely to put things in their mouths that shouldn't be there and Germ-X stays on your hands for a while. So you may have one more reason there to not let your children use waterless soaps.

most of us grew up with out all the antibactrial junk and we were all just fine. What happened to soap and water, and children being able to play in and eat dirt. I grew up getting to live life with out wondering what germs I may have touched. Where went the fun days of getting to experience life even touching nasty junk on the ground, bugs and even dog poop. We have replaced all this with antibactrials and we've weakened our immune systems

Hello most of us grew up without all this antibacterial stuff and we survived. What happened to kids playing in the dirt, eating it, touching everything from bugs to dog poop. People have becomed too crazed with all of this antibacterial junk. Yeah it may be good but it is weakening our immune systems.

Well - all I can say is - Duh!!! It took all this time for scientists to figure that out?? This should NOT be a surprise - it's just plain, simple logic. Your immune system is like your muscles or any other system in your body. If it doesn't get a good workout - it gets weak. Again - Duh!!!

That is the most insane notion that people are carrying around MRSA! This is a "superbug" that kills and so called "experts" are misleading people as to the seriousness of this disease. This is NOT the same bacteria that people carry around on their bodies and it is certainly NOT normal flora. Over protection is not the problem here. The problem is that we have some "experts" who are idiots and instead of taking responsibility for what they do not know, they are making an attempt to mislead the public into thinking these bacteria are normal flora. The article may be well-written but it is filled with ignorance. The best way for mothers and fathers to handle this "superbug" is prevention. Also, hospitals are going to have to clean up their nasty floors, bathrooms, patients' rooms, surgical rooms and equipments, etc. There needs to be constant cleaning with a clorax solution daily, all day. This nastiness is going to have to go and scientists need to start doing their jobs and stop blaming mothers for over protecting their children! That ignorance is dangerous and fatal!

EVERYONE'S CHEMICAL MAKEUP IS DIFFERENT. THIS SUMMER MY HUSBAND WAS ATTACKED EACH TIME HE EMERGED FROM THE CAR BY MISQUITOS. THEY ENCIRCLED HIM HE COULD NOT GET AWAY THEY WENT UNDER HIS PANTS LEG AND DOWN HIS SHIR T. BUT THEY NEVER BOTHERED ME AT ALL EVEN IF I WAS STANDING NEXT TO HIM STRANGER THAN FICTION.

everyone is different . this summer my husband got attacked by misquitos each time he emereged from the car. they never bothered me at all . something about him attracted them to him but not me wonder why. they would even for under his pants leg and down his shirt it has been really strange

Modern, pharmaceutical American medicine is killing all of us, slowly but surely. I have just had a bout with acid reflux, a few small ulcers and gastritis. I was ruled negative for H. Pylori, and now I'm thinking this may not be such a good thing. I have eschewed my primary care physician and gastroenterologist - both working at a major Boston hosptial - for a chiropractic naturopath. She cured me (and readjusted my entire skeletal system without any painful treatments) of most of my gastro symptoms in 6 weeks with a digestive enzyme supplement after ordering me to stop taking proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) , which I did, with haste, as they were making me worse. I'm sure my stomach had been deprived of necessary microbes by the PPIs, as well as all the ridiculous diets I tried. I truly believe that the enzymes I am taking are working in tandem with natural bacteria in my stomach to promote a natural balance, and I feel better than I've felt in years.. On another note, I watch with horror as young mothers are bacterially over- protective of their children who will be prey to all types of diseases once they venture into the public with no natural microbial defenses. There is no talkiing to these young mothers, however, even as more and more of them are watching their children suffer from uncanny alergies, asthma and mysterious aliments. I have no answer for them, unfortunately, primarily because they are not asking - they believe they are totally right disinfecting everthing include the air breathed in by their kids. They are creating the disinfected and thus unprotected environments in which their children live, and through which they are being weakened. By the way, I totally agree with J B Stahl that this article was exceptionally written.

I am a fourty eight year old femaie which also got the MIRSA Staph infection. I got it from a eperderal that was done for a female surgery in September 2006 at Riverside Hospital. I went through three IV antibotics which I was allergic to all. The last one took my muscle and desire for food away. I was unable to hold anything down or in me. I took three times a day IV meds to allow my liquids to stay with me. Lets get more involved in our own health care like I had to for Family Doctors don't always listen. Thanks for William Coker , Dermatologist got me to the Right Doctor and I am doing well today.

This isn't anything particularly new. Studies have shown that children who are raised with pets in the home are less likely to suffer from animal allergies. If we allow our children to become exposed to the lower less toxic levels of microbes, then their immune systems learn how to deal with them efficiently. And the side effects of antibiotics go far beyond just superbugs. My son has dental problems that can be laid directly at the feet of over zeralous use of anitbiotics at a crucial stage in his infancy.

These contaminants may be plentiful, but you don't need to be bombarded by them. Especially with kids around, as anyone knows that they can spread germs faster than greased lightning. Dr. James Marsden, Regents Distinguished Professor of Food Safety and Security at Kansas State University has shown, after estensive testing, that the environmental technology that I carry can eliminate 99.99% of airborne and surface pathogens, including MRSA, and a whole host of others too numerous to mention here. For more info, email me at wytnyt55@freedomin4steps.com.

a month ago i was working as a flight attendant and a coworker flying with me told me she had MRSA. I didnt think any thing about it.She told me i couldnt get.Now hearing every thing about it and how severe it is i am woundering if she should be flying?

I think sanitizing the most harmful or most bacterial places in the community and the home is a very good idea. I have raised my children on fruits and vegetables, vitamins and a heck of a lot of brita water. My daughter (9 years old) has had one cold (NOT treated with antibiotics) and my son( 5 ) has never been sick. Definately wash hands a lot. Build the immune system with the proper diet and exercise; and when sick try hard not to use antibiotics. I do not believe the way to a healthy immune is to live in filth.

I have been trying to tell people this for years! Back in school, I was the only one never sick (and essentially still am- maybe a cold a year). Do I use sanitizers? NO! I was a college student- do you think my place was disinfected? Ha, yeah right (maybe where the beer or random shot was spilled). You have to let your body build its immune system, just like you would if you were lifting weights. You don't automatically think you can lift 400 lbs. from the get go there, so why would you think if you keep all the little things away your body will be able to handle a serious threat?