In the time of "Corona" ... Keeping children at home harms their immune system
Thorough hygiene and solitude are not a good thing for a boost to your immune system.
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It seems that the Corona virus had some positive aspects, as there have been fewer cases of colds, and since last March, children have had fewer colds.
However, it is known that it is beneficial for children to expose them to bacteria and viruses because it strengthens their immune system.
This is one of the reasons why we use the vaccine, which is a small amount of pathogenic germs or viruses, and the body works to resist them, which leads to strengthening the strength of its immune system.
According to the immunity hypothesis proposed by the British scientist David Strachan in 1989, children in developed countries grow up in a clean environment of sterilizers and detergents, which makes them far from diseases, but the rates of autoimmune and allergic diseases increased at a significant rate.
Therefore, complete hygiene and isolation is not a good thing for boosting the immune system, although some scientists have different opinions.
It seems that keeping children at home can help them in certain cases, such as respiratory virus infection, which affects children in the second year of life, and is dangerous and leads to the admission of about 57 thousand children annually to hospitals in the United States, and can lead to asthma in some cases .
But if children develop this disease at a later age, it is much less dangerous.
But in other diseases, the matter is the opposite of the above, as diseases caused by the virus are very harmless if it affects young children and their effect is dangerous if it affects older children, and the disease can last for several months until it cures.
There are diseases such as measles, mumps, and smallpox that can be very dangerous if children contract them at an advanced age, but the spread of these diseases can be prevented with the vaccine.
And when children are exposed to germs and microbes at a young age, the issue is not related to diseases only. When children are with other children, germs and microbes transfer between them and not necessarily pathogens, but they are good for the development of their immune systems.
Researchers say if people are isolated from each other, it leads to a weakening of the development of their immune systems.
There is a useful reason why people are exposed to allergic factors, such as pollen caused by peanuts, peanut butter and shrimp, as they train our bodies to deal with such factors in the future.
The idea here, according to what the scientists say, is that if you expose yourself to something repeatedly, you become accustomed to it and your immune system does not need an exaggerated response against it.
And other research says that exposure to germs and beneficial microbes is a good matter, because children who take antibiotics that kill beneficial microbes, become more exposed to the risk of developing asthma and allergies, while children who live on farms where plants and animals and all kinds of microbes and germs, have the potential Less sickness caused by such microbes and germs because their bodies have become accustomed to them.
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