Germ obsession is about overprotecting parents not letting their children expose to contaminants and germs and dirt when they are small. This has been teh natural way for humans, naturally. That way the body and its systems learn to modulate the response to foreign agents.
By over cleaning and sterilizing the home environments, especially protective mothers prevent their children from "setting up" their immune syst. in the correct way.
So when they are a bit older.. the children get exposed to the bacteria or pollen for example and their immune system considers it more dangerous than is should be or should have been, if they weren't raised the way they were.
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Germ obsession is about overprotecting parents not letting their children expose to contaminants and germs and dirt when they are small. This has been teh natural way for humans, naturally. That way the body and its systems learn to modulate the response to foreign agents.
By over cleaning and sterilizing the home environments, especially protective mothers prevent their children from "setting up" their immune syst. in the correct way.
So when they are a bit older.. the children get exposed to the bacteria or pollen for example and their immune system considers it more dangerous than is should be or should have been, if they weren't raised the way they were.
I'm convinced by this explanation.