Jakarta, Clean is healthy! Of course, this jargon no one argued. But is the cleaner one more makes it immune to the disease because the body was never trained to fight?Reflecting on the past when people are not familiar with sanitation and hygiene, it is not a lot of autoimmune diseases was found.
When people rarely bathe and wash their hands, immunity or immunity was stronger because it is often exposed by the parasites.
But now the higher consciousness of people to clean the germs even more difficult to resist. True?
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego in a study published in the journal Nature Medicine, concluded that the presence of dirt, bacteria and other microorganisms can be beneficial to one's health.
"The bacteria is actually good for us," said Professor Richard Gallo was quoted as saying by the Journal Nature Medicine on Thursday (07/10/2010).
According to people who are too obsessed with always clean and hygienic actually impair the ability of bacteria on the surface of the skin to protect skin from cuts, bruises or inflammation.
Researchers say that one of the trigger allergies in children are introduced and their lack of exposure to the dirt so that the body's immune system is not well developed.
This was communicated by the researcher after a Charity Allergy study conducted in England showed that 40 percent of cases that occurred during this allergy has doubled compared to the 1990's, when people today have a more healthy habits and clean in the appeal of old people.
"The bacteria that can reduce inflammation (inflammation) and increase body resistance if there is wound so that the wound is not too swollen or sore on the skin," said Gallo.
Previously Dr Zakiudin Munasir, Sp.A (K), Chairman of the Division of Allergy Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of medicine-RSCM said there is a balance within the body's immune system, namely cell-cell lymphocytes (white blood cells) which is divided into cell lymphocytes Th1 (T helper 1) and Th2.
Th1 lymphocyte cells active in the cell and act against the threat of infection and allergy. Th2 lymphocytes active outside the cell and only contribute to allergies.
Th1 lymphocyte cells in the body will be active in a slum neighborhood or many allergens (allergy triggers), so that the body has more resistance to infection. Th1 lymphocyte cells are more robust against allergies, and because of this lymphocyte cells contribute to infections and allergies, the allergy will be rare in the slums.
While in areas that are not too many allergens, which is active only Th2 lymphocytes because of the small possibility of infection, thereby allowing more allergy than slums.
Even so Dr Zaki stressed, everyone still must always maintain environmental hygiene to prevent diseases that are more dangerous than an allergy, such as tuberculosis and measles.
The same thing also disclosed Professor Gallo he did not agree when people think clean is not good. Because there are also types of harmful bacteria that can cause inflammation of the skin, such as bacteria from staphylococcal species by dirty living habits.
So it shall be clean but not too terobesesi because untrained body fight disease.
source: (http://www.detikhealth.com/read/2010/10/07/120358/1457941/766/semakin-bersih-semakin-tidak-kebal-penyakit)