Did viruses evolve or have children today have immunity to the ground? It is the question that led to an interesting debate on an online platform. What doctors say and what the Internet users believe.
Children of today are always getting sick. Photo: Shutterstock
“I have some friends who keep their baby in the fluff and is always cool. The wind blows, the phone call not to get the child out to cool. The forecast is changed from the sun to the cloudy, a phone call. I went to them in December when they were -7 out and they had 28c in the house.
I still have a few colleagues who from autumn until spring take 2-3 days a free month that the child is cool. Another complains that they are the consultations and medicines so expensive, that they make its hole in the budget.
I do not know that I have ever been missing from school that I was cold, nor colleagues. Maybe who knows how a few days were gathered all year when someone was missing from school. Our nose was flowing for 2 days and ready. We were fighting and rubbing with snow until I was a lion, they were in the classroom when we came from the break. After school I was used to the skin of snow and sweating. And I don’t know how to have gone to the doctor or have taken treatment.
Did viruses evolve or have children immunity to the ground? – is the post from which a very interesting debate started on the Reddit platform.
The post had dozens of comments. Before presenting the most relevant we draw attention to what doctors say. Sorin Man, the vice-president of the Romanian Pediatric Society, explained for the “Adevărul” why the hot to the cold favors the fixing of the viruses and why the clothing has nothing to do with the prevention of colds in children. How we can help our children to overcome the respiratory diseases. One of the problems is about the fact that fewer and fewer children are vaccinated.
Reduced exposure to microbes in childhood can increase the risk
The post has gathered hundreds of comments.
“Hygiene theory, reduced exposure to microbes in childhood can increase the risk of allergies, asthma and weakening of immunity. Children from the village are healthier because they have contact with the Earth and various.
The lack of physical activity matters much more than many believe.
Overheated houses and excessive protection, not the cold does not get you sick but temporarily decreases the immune system, if the house is very heated and the child is always infoflored does not learn to adapt his defense mechanisms. In the Nordic countries, the babies often are able to sleep outside the day to adapt to the cold (dress well obviously). And in the kindergarten children are taken out every day regardless of the bad weather, let them play in the mud and rain (many mothers in Romania would be infarct if the child would dirty their clothes so in grades and tell him he was in the rain) ”,, support a commentator.
It adds: worse diet, excessive sugar consumption and lack of micronutrition such as vitamin D, omega 3 decreases the capacity of the immune system, at least temporarily.
“Increasing the number of viruses, some viruses are stronger (but less than the world seems to believe, bacterial resistance to antibiotics is a problem, but viruses are not necessarily stronger) but there are much more because of globalization and agglomeration. Your body of these and how quickly pass over (aka you say that you were ok in two days) that makes it seem that viruses are much stronger than before”, Details the user.
He believes that, in fact, there were always sick children only that most of the time parents did not afford to keep them at home: “And probably not your generation but the generation born by 40-60, it is important to remember that children with weak immunity did not give birth to sick and did not pass 2-3 years. The sudden decrease in the baby’s rate that die in infantry has a correlation with all this discussion. You remember things selectively, it is not as if you say the reality was necessary. “
“The village of childhood became a global village”
“The lifestyle and the way they are raised has brought to most children already (especially in cities) to have very weak immunity”, Said a useful of the platform.
One of the commentator is of the opinion that exposure/interaction is the critical factor, in the context in which parents travel/move more than the generation of our parents: “I also had a childhood in the country, exposed in all forms to nature and today I have children in my turn; all my life I thought I had a strong immune system, but after the children entered my community (kindergarten, school, etc.) I made as an adult childhood diseases that I had not heard + flu.”
“The children of my generation were more protected by the lack of exposure I say or at least the dose of exposure was smaller than what we live today. The village of childhood has become global!” – he concluded.
The commentator adds that the Romanians go out in all the statistics in Europe as being the nation to whom the highest inner temperature likes in winter + children’s fasculation: “I remember when I visited Amsterdam, it was blowing a cold cold wind and I saw moms with the children on the bicycle, with an empty head with a thin layer of clothes on them. For us you often see hats, scarves, gloves, rows over rows of clothes not to cool or pull it.”
“I think the main factor is exposure to viruses”
Another user claims that he often thinks about visiting friends who have children and brings home “A viruse of two spits, I happened twice. Now I actually ask if they are chilled before they take me to them and I refuse to meet. I do not know what diseases they have in kindergarten, but once every 2-3 weeks everyone gets sick at what the child brings home. ”
Another commentator believes the main factor is exposure to viruses: “” People travel more often now, many places are more crowded so by default several viruses are transmitted (and they are probably more evolved now). Why do I say that? I look at myself: in recent years I have cooled more than when I was a child. Visit at home to me and I think it’s enough to feel weaker and get sick.“
He admits that what some parents do now is not normal: “To stay in 28 degrees seems to me inhuman. The perfect temperature for sleep is 19 degrees. But the parents took care of the children in this way and when I was at school. And probably not your generation but the generation born by 40-60, it is important to remember that children with weak or born immunity.”
Another Internetaut completed that, besides the greater exposure to viruses, there are also the side effects of the modern lifestyle: “We are increasingly sedentary, we ate more and more unhealthy, we live in an increasingly polluted environment and we make children later, all these things go down the health of the child who starts with disadvantages from birth, then raise sedentary children with a less healthy diet than the previous generations.”
Another commentator keep in mind that “Half of the class I was about all winter, by rotation. Or remember when the parents/grandparents came after colleagues, because they did not feel good, they had a fever, etc.
Now we have 2 extremes that earn land: “Those who send their children to school in almost any state, because they have no one to leave them with them (grandparents are no longer so involved, increased age + others) and the other extreme, those who coconut their children too much. And it seems to me that the middle version is increasingly rare.“He concluded.
