Hey! No offense was taken, I assure you. I am more than fully aware that my personal hygeine habits are not up to par, and quite frankly, I don't give a damn
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Younger kids do get sick more often than adults, b/c they don't have as many imunities. So getting sick alot when you were little is probably alot of the reason you don't get sick now (i don't know that it corallates with the hand washing tho...lol). Buliding up imunities is definitely helpful....but there are stupid things that we've (meaning people in america) have never been expostd to, and all the imunities you have can't really help that.
I totally agree with you that washing hands isn't the only way to prevent against disease! Hell if you didn't take care of yourself at all and only washed your hands you would still be screwed, lol. Eating right and exercise are definitely good ideas too! (and actually a suprizing number of college students get scurvy cuz they eat horribly their first year, lol).
yeah. exposing yourself to germs often does help to build immunities and stuff. i rarely get sick, even when i was little i was the same way... i dont really know why that is, but if you have strong immunities it doesnt matter (to some extent) who sneezes on you or if you dont wash your hands once in a while.
on the flip side of this whole washing your hands argument... washing them too much with antibacterial soap and such is a hot topic nowadays. it doesnt neccesarily kill all the bacteria and the strong ones survive so that they are the ones that breed and then you have all of these strong bacteria around... SUPER BUGS. so now people are worried about using too much antibacterial and about not washing their hands.... what a predicament!!
Ack! Don't get me started on the whole "super bug" thing. I remember cringing everytime ms. sinhkornrat mentioned it, i think it was one of the only things i disagreed with her on. From what I understand bacteria get resistant to antibiotics, not antibacterial stuff (i think people just got confused somewhere down the line since the two sound similar)...tbut here's some difference and some long explination as to why it doesnt really happe....but i really don't remember, lol.
(you know i realized that alot of this crap has been planted in my head by my mother...wich would normaly scare me, lol. but this happens to be one subject i trust her on since she actually worked in a lab and does infection control and all that crap, lol)
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Younger kids do get sick more often than adults, b/c they don't have as many imunities. So getting sick alot when you were little is probably alot of the reason you don't get sick now (i don't know that it corallates with the hand washing tho...lol). Buliding up imunities is definitely helpful....but there are stupid things that we've (meaning people in america) have never been expostd to, and all the imunities you have can't really help that.
I totally agree with you that washing hands isn't the only way to prevent against disease! Hell if you didn't take care of yourself at all and only washed your hands you would still be screwed, lol. Eating right and exercise are definitely good ideas too! (and actually a suprizing number of college students get scurvy cuz they eat horribly their first year, lol).
Lol. yep, that pretty much sums it up. ;)
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on the flip side of this whole washing your hands argument... washing them too much with antibacterial soap and such is a hot topic nowadays. it doesnt neccesarily kill all the bacteria and the strong ones survive so that they are the ones that breed and then you have all of these strong bacteria around... SUPER BUGS. so now people are worried about using too much antibacterial and about not washing their hands.... what a predicament!!
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Ack! Don't get me started on the whole "super bug" thing. I remember cringing everytime ms. sinhkornrat mentioned it, i think it was one of the only things i disagreed with her on. From what I understand bacteria get resistant to antibiotics, not antibacterial stuff (i think people just got confused somewhere down the line since the two sound similar)...tbut here's some difference and some long explination as to why it doesnt really happe....but i really don't remember, lol.
(you know i realized that alot of this crap has been planted in my head by my mother...wich would normaly scare me, lol. but this happens to be one subject i trust her on since she actually worked in a lab and does infection control and all that crap, lol)
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