Anti-bacterial paint

For people who lick walls.

^^^ Have to agree, I try to let our kids experience as much as possible within their limits.

A quote I heard that I like is "Mums put coats on their kids when they (the mum) is cold." I still struggle with this concept when my own kids are complaining about having to wear a coat when the only reason from mum is "because 'it's' cold out there."

As for the OP - I fully endorse the use of paint that deters mould...if that's the stuff?

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Mackerel said..
Unfortunately I've met a heap of school mums that would happily insist on it...
It would nicely complement the hand sanitiser, anti bacterial wipes, germ free toy spray, silver infused band aids, air purifier, water purifier.......

I've got a friend with two small dogs, she lives in an apartment so tries to take the dogs for a walk in the adjacent park daily. On returning she cleans their feet with anti-bac wipes and if they poop their back end gets a thorough clean with anti-bac wipes too. She now has a bub so she's twice as thorough. No chance ever that kid will ever get to eat dirt.

Dirt exposure = no asthma. Not very likely. The science show I saw linked a particular strain of gut bacteria which is high in asthma sufferers which is prevalent in hospitals, the suggestion was the bacteria is picked up during birth. Studies are showing 3mths is the window of opportunity to seed the probiotics..

mobile.abc.net.au/news/science/2015-10-01/gut-bacteria-in-infants-may-protect-against-asthma/6817312

As for the antibacterial products, many are banned or under scrutiny OS.

www.cbc.ca/m/news/technology/ban-antibacterials-triclosan-and-triclocarban-report-says-1.2703095

It is almost as dumb as the hand sanitiser with a sensor so it puts the lotion in your hands without having to push the button.
It is touted as better as hands as buttons are alll dirrrtyyyy.

Well for god's sake you farken advertising company idiots, it does not matter how dirty the button is.... you are about to disinfect your bloody hands. Dettol can't figure that out.

Then plenty of research showing we want slighty dirty surfaces (like we always had) yet they continue to market to neurotic new mothers (who obviously failed science in yr9) with all manner of antibacterial stuff.

Yes, very likely.

The scientific explanation is that your body gets exposed to allergens when young and learns that there is not a huge response required, so the body learns how to handle it. When they see the same allergens later, it is not a problem.

Now, disinfect everything and prevent your baby getting exposed to these things early on, and they get exposed to them later and have a huge response.

Sure, some bacteria may protect against some things, but explain why we seem to have HUGE increases in allergic reactions to things at a time when people are trying to be super clean by disinfecting everything?

I saw a program on Insight where this Malaysian couple were trying to explain to their relatives why their child had an allergy to peanuts which was absolutely unheard of in their family, and the only difference was probably that the Australian based couple were keeping things superclean.

There's a lot of industrial pollution out there, not just emissions from smoke stacks and cars but from outgassing plastics and cleaners, surfactants, insecticides etc etc that weren't around 50 years ago. Any/many of them could be implicated wrt asthma. Not just that but many self immune disorders seem to be up. Three people in my close family have such things.

When they test these things they can only test them for anticipated effects and the testing necessarily doesn't go on for ever before they are released. You'd expect the occasional deleterious product to slip through the net because the net isn't fail safe. It can't be.

Knowledge is to know a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is to know you don't put it in a fruit salad.

Same thing here...Knowledge is to know it's all marketing guff. Wisdom is to know not to reason with new mums.