Researchers are concerned that attitudes to hygiene are being undermined by the hygiene hypothesis, and that this misleading misnomer could contribute to the spread of infectious disease. The diverse ...

The ability to keep homes clean and protect people from germs has become much more advanced in the last 50 years. But is the use of antibacterial soap and various cleaning chemicals causing them to ...

The July issue of Perspectives in Public Health (published by the Royal Society of Public Health) takes an objective view of ongoing research showing that the hygiene hypothesis – the idea that ...

SEATTLE — What is the "hygiene hypothesis" and does it have any legs among medical circles right now? HealthLink talked with a local physician about it to explain. The hygiene hypothesis is a theory ...

Is Lifelong Exposure Necessary for Protection Against Allergy? Some critics of the hygiene hypothesis believe that microbial exposure may need to be continued throughout life to prevent allergies. [9] ...

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Since 1989, allergists and clinicians have debated the “hygiene hypothesis,” in which researcher David Strachan proposed that improved hygiene in Western nations resulted in immunologic overreactions ...

With respect to the hygiene hypothesis, they are people inside a bubble whose defenses are not immunologic but physical. When that physical barrier is removed, the immunologic system has no experience ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) – It’s been called the “hygiene hypothesis” – all the scrubbing and wiping we do to keep germs at bay may instead interrupt the body’s natural defense systems. The ...

Indian researchers from the formidable Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and two other top-notch institutes have put to test the "hygiene hypothesis" with a study suggesting that ...

SHREVEPORT, La. — Asthma is the most common chronic disease in the developed world. Researchers say one reason this may be the case, is because our homes are too clean. It’s called the “hygiene ...