Clean house can be deadly for a child
Good news for anyone no time to thoroughly clean the house - in the UK, scientists from the Institute for Cancer Research have found that excessive craving for cleanliness in the home by parents may be deadly to their children.
A large-scale study showed that cleanliness on the verge of "sterility", when there is not a speck of dust in the house, increases the likelihood of the development of various severe forms in children under 14 years of age. oncological diseases.
Thus, the study showed that small boys aged 1 to 6 years old, who grew up in complete, almost sterile cleanliness, often became ill with children's acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
In fairness it should be noted that all sick children were found genetic predisposition to cancer, but the decisive factor that provoked the onset of the disease, scientists still consider a small number of microorganisms and ordinary household dust in the environment surrounding the child.
Also, almost all the patients were carefully protected by their parents from communicating with their peers during the first year of life, while the guys who attended the nursery turned out to be healthier.
British researchers decided to test their suspicions on mice - laboratory small mice were put in a separate box, where almost sterile conditions were created.
The lab technicians cleaned the box and kept it clean every hour.
The mice that grew up in such conditions were weaker and sicker; in 70% of them, by the end of the experiment, they were found tumors and neoplasms various localization.
A British study should be adopted by those who firmly believe that only sterile cleanliness benefits the baby.
And so, by the way, believes more than half of young mothers and almost two thirds of grandmothers in Russia.
